but i failed to set put this server on a ups, which after a few brown outs and possible a black out or two, damaged the raid configuration enough to render the server useless.
it sat like that for while.
then i picked up the project again this year. i replaced several components and most of the hard drives.
current configuration:
- 3 seagate 2TB drives
- 2 hitachi 2TB drives
- 1 seagate 250GB drive (for the operating system)
i rebuilt the array by hand rather than using centos install wizardry. and i wish i had started with hitatchi drives since i had to replace a few of seagates due to failed sectors. i would also have found a mSATA adapter since my motherboard doesn't include one and put the centos 7 on it giving me one more drive for the raid.
i'm running four of the five drives in an active raid while one of them remains a spare. (i should consider that mSATA adapter and transfer my op sys to it.)
to avoid losing more data, i created a crashplan account and am backing up data on this raid to that location. it will be my off-site storage solution.
i need to put the panels back on the rig and set it aside to do its job. oh, and i do have this server on a nice ups this time. no more power-related damage going forward.
