Setting up SBS 2003 General/Network Qs

OoOverclockaoO said:
Wasn't meant to be like that - the cabinet was a bit of a mess so was difficult to tell - all tidied up now.

The OS is set up on Raid 1+0 , although after reboot it said repairing and now the red light is off, seems strange as all the disks are brand new
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Most of the disk failures I've had on servers have been on disks that are fairly new. If it's a pukka HP drive get it RMAed, they send you the replacement before you return the duff drive.
 
I've had brand new servers showing up dead drives, removed and reinserted (fault light disappeared) and still running without issue over a year later
 
OoOverclockaoO said:
Its going onto a DL380 G2, Dual Xeon.

Everything will be backed up onto the NAS frequently :) Not very familiar with SBS , hence my questions here :) this is the only server so will be domain controller.
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You should be able to team the nics with this old girl ;)

This will give you some degree of load balancing between the nics and redundancy.
 
Got in this morning, the thing crashed during backup, 3 drives with red lights :eek:

Rebooted, selected F2 (risk data loss by enabling array) boots into Windows with a couple of errors showing - try a backup and during backup 2 red lights on drives :confused:

I think something else is faulty, not the drives !
 
Got into windows, with a few problems (few services couldn't start) managed to do a full backup and now 1 red light again already - is it likely that something else could be faulty here?
 
That was my next step to remove the backplate and possibly replace with a new one.

When I create an array now the disks come up as failed pretty much immediately :p - I ran the SmartStart diagnostics and the drive tests fail
 
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