Lost a server due to multiple drive failure

[Gokuofuin]

Howsit all.

 

So I goofed. I ignored a drive that was suspicions and sometimes didn't come back online when rebooting one of our servers at work. I figured since it came back if I just turned the PC off and on again then it was alright to ignore it for now and deal with it when it fails (then I would replace it) but I knew it would bite my ass at the wrong time.

 

So yesterday I went to upgrade one of the drives to a new 4TB drive and low and behold the other sketchy drive decided to fail when I did the upgrade so the server thought that two drives had failed. I tried inserting the old drive I was upgrading so as to only have one failed drive (the sketchy one) and then I could just recover that one drive. But seems like the server didnt like that. Its convinced that both drives are non-compatible and need to be formatted.

So ya moral of the story I screwed up, I should have fixed the sketchy drive straight away and not left it. Because it will mess up when you least expect it to. Anyways I just wanted some people to tell me how stupid I was for not replacing it so I figured I would just tell you all. (cus I am a dum dum for not doing it, I know)

[jaslion]

Fair enough you identified the problem for next time. Hope you had a decent backup policy and failover so it wasn't noticed?

 

We all get lazy sometimes and well no better time to get bit in the butt but then :p. Makes you not wanna have it happen again

[Agall]

26 minutes ago, Gokuofuin said:

Howsit all.

 

So I goofed. I ignored a drive that was suspicions and sometimes didn't come back online when rebooting one of our servers at work. I figured since it came back if I just turned the PC off and on again then it was alright to ignore it for now and deal with it when it fails (then I would replace it) but I knew it would bite my ass at the wrong time.

 

So yesterday I went to upgrade one of the drives to a new 4TB drive and low and behold the other sketchy drive decided to fail when I did the upgrade so the server thought that two drives had failed. I tried inserting the old drive I was upgrading so as to only have one failed drive (the sketchy one) and then I could just recover that one drive. But seems like the server didnt like that. Its convinced that both drives are non-compatible and need to be formatted.

So ya moral of the story I screwed up, I should have fixed the sketchy drive straight away and not left it. Because it will mess up when you least expect it to. Anyways I just wanted some people to tell me how stupid I was for not replacing it so I figured I would just tell you all. (cus I am a dum dum for not doing it, I know)

Your penance shall be to recite the OSI model 30 times.

[OddOod]

Totally fair and it happens. If you want people to rag on you, your best bet will be Reddit. We're more likely to commiserate and offer moral support