Logical Drive Rebuild Time

[Ayman Altounji]

I replaced a 4.3 Gb Drive into a 16Gb RAID 5 Array three days ago and the logical drive is still rebuilding. Rebuild priority is set to low. Is this a normal time scale ? If I set rebuild priority to High, how will it effect the utilisation of the server ?

[Ayman Altounji]

rebuild time is about 20 minutes per gig. Setting the priority to low means that the rebuild will occur will system is idle. What you may have maybe a drive that is in a constant rebuild stage. I would recommend you run the acu and save that to a file and send it in to Compaq to see if you may have some drives that are causing this problem.

[Ayman Altounji]

You may need to upgrade the firmware on the Smart Controller and the original drives .

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[Ayman Altounji]

I have already upgraded the Array drivers and Firmware on each of the drives. I believe the problem lies with an existing drive having exceeded its threshold for errors, therefore preventing the rebuild. Any suggestions, besides rebuild the box !