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EVA8400 - "Disk drive failure protection" even though 2 largest 450 GB drives free space available

 
Johan Guldmyr
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‎05-18-2011 07:54 AM

‎05-18-2011 07:54 AM

Re: EVA8400 - "Disk drive failure protection" even though 2 largest 450 GB drives free space available

If you only run vraid1 then yes they are in pairs. For vraid5 in the same the disk group your data will still be available if you lose one disk per RSS.
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DCESStorage_1
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‎05-18-2011 08:30 AM

‎05-18-2011 08:30 AM

Re: EVA8400 - "Disk drive failure protection" even though 2 largest 450 GB drives free space available

Thanks to you all - great responses. Things settled down after levelling, and now we got two more disks about to fail, off we go to replace those :-)
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