P410 May Be Failing, What Replacement?

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I've had a HP Microserver complete with P410 loaded with three 3TB disks in RAID5, it's been going for 18 months but I had issues bringing it up yesterday.

There server was working fine but it couldn't find the Smart Array. I've not had chance to reseat it yet but either way my confidence in it has been knocked.

I have around 4-5TB of data on the RAID set that I now need to start backing up. I don't want to bin the microserver, but I'm aware that it could actually be that opposed to the smart array.

The storage is used as a file server for video and music files. The music shares need to be on all of the time, the video share doesn't.

I'm not sure whether to go down the route of buying a new 4 bay QNAP/Synology, buy a 5TB USB disk and back the files up onto that then move the disks from the Microserver to the QNAP/Synology.

I could upgrade my router too and share the 5TB of storage as backup media off that?

Arrggghh! Don't know what to do :confused:
 
I'd be very surprised if it's the 410. Which variant on microserver? I'd suspect that's more likely to fail?
 
I would have thought a P410 would get just a tad toasty inside a micro server. If it's anything like my HP/lsi 8888elp, even in a fairly big case with a veritable hurricane of fans it still feels like a small furnace.
 
Kei said:
I would have thought a P410 would get just a tad toasty inside a micro server. If it's anything like my HP/lsi 8888elp, even in a fairly big case with a veritable hurricane of fans it still feels like a small furnace.
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I have no issue with a P212 in mine or a P420 in my Gen8.
 
Well tonight it booted fine, bizzare. This is only the second time it's caused problems, after a few retries it works. Wondering if it's just poorly seated, it is tight in there.
 
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