Originally Posted by Socks

I'm sure lots of you have RAID5's setup, I know that we just went through a RAID5 nightmare on a 4TB array... Lost a drive, then the hardware raid controller wouldn't accept a disk, and recommended we "delete the volume" ............

This led to huge downtime, a massive rsync, and a rebuild of the whole array, then a copy back. No fucking fun.

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