At work we have tons of PC's out there running 2x disks in RAID-1 using the onboard Intel Matrix system on Intel ICH7 - ICH9 chipsets.
We have a major problem on our hands in that we get several RAID failures per month where disks drop out of the raid, marked as error or failed. When testing the drives with diagnostic software as standalone, they are absolutly fine.
Now in my spare time outside of work I do a lot of work with Linux servers, and we have machines running with Hardware RAID controllers and Linux Kernel software RAID (MDADM). Several of these run the same drives as the machines at work, and have no such problems.
Technically Intel Matrix Raid is called "FAKE RAID" and is frowned upon by those who deal with actual servers, but surley it shouldnt be this bad... After all I know enough OcUK members use it for RAID-0 etc.
Anyone have any ideas why we are having such high failure rates? I initially put this down to heat as the pc's run warm (We dont build them so have no say in it), but even with extra fans we are seeing these issues.
Thanks
We have a major problem on our hands in that we get several RAID failures per month where disks drop out of the raid, marked as error or failed. When testing the drives with diagnostic software as standalone, they are absolutly fine.
Now in my spare time outside of work I do a lot of work with Linux servers, and we have machines running with Hardware RAID controllers and Linux Kernel software RAID (MDADM). Several of these run the same drives as the machines at work, and have no such problems.
Technically Intel Matrix Raid is called "FAKE RAID" and is frowned upon by those who deal with actual servers, but surley it shouldnt be this bad... After all I know enough OcUK members use it for RAID-0 etc.
Anyone have any ideas why we are having such high failure rates? I initially put this down to heat as the pc's run warm (We dont build them so have no say in it), but even with extra fans we are seeing these issues.
Thanks