https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/2-simultanous-disk-failures/m-p/565586#M1506 Brendan:<BR /><BR />It does not necessarily indicate that there is a problem with the controller and/or the drive. If you had just 1 failure indicator, I probably would not be too worried about it as I have seen disks complain about being bad when they are not really bad.<BR /><BR />Having 2 fail at the same time is a different story and I would be more cautious in that situation. Cautious enough to maybe give HP Support a call to see if there was anything you can do to check logs or run a program that checks out the controllers/backplane of the MSA shelf.<BR /><BR />If there is a problem, it might just be a signaling issue with the backplace. I have seen several bad backplanes in the past 5 years where... everyting works just fine, except for one slot that always drop a drive into a failed state every now and then for no reason.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />Steven Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:36:39 GMT Steven Clementi 2005-09-05T10:36:39Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/2-simultanous-disk-failures/m-p/565585#M1505 2 simultanous disk failures in a MSA1000 SAN RAID set occurred recently. When the disks were reset they no longer indicated any failure. Would this indicate a problem with the RAID controller ? Mon, 05 Sep 2005 06:14:35 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/2-simultanous-disk-failures/m-p/565585#M1505 Brendan Collins_1 2005-09-05T06:14:35Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/2-simultanous-disk-failures/m-p/565586#M1506 Brendan:<BR /><BR />It does not necessarily indicate that there is a problem with the controller and/or the drive. If you had just 1 failure indicator, I probably would not be too worried about it as I have seen disks complain about being bad when they are not really bad.<BR /><BR />Having 2 fail at the same time is a different story and I would be more cautious in that situation. Cautious enough to maybe give HP Support a call to see if there was anything you can do to check logs or run a program that checks out the controllers/backplane of the MSA shelf.<BR /><BR />If there is a problem, it might just be a signaling issue with the backplace. I have seen several bad backplanes in the past 5 years where... everyting works just fine, except for one slot that always drop a drive into a failed state every now and then for no reason.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR />Steven Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:36:39 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/msa-storage/2-simultanous-disk-failures/m-p/565586#M1506 Steven Clementi 2005-09-05T10:36:39Z