Why is my HP gen8 Microserver flashing Orange ?

2013 · 3 Jun 2017 at 17:05

Why is my HP gen8 Microserver flashing Orange ?

It seams to load fine, Im still using it but I cant tell why its flashing orange.

Quartz · 3 Jun 2017 at 17:33

Connect network a cable to the ILO port and see what ILO tells you.

2013 · 3 Jun 2017 at 18:46

OK the only thing, Ive found is one of the drive had data issues and needs to rebuild, I have set it to rebuild but its taking forever, its only rebuilt 0.3% in the past hour. will rebuilding overight what ive backed up a few hours ago ?

can i cancel it and let it backup from the other drive ?
also would deleting the drive and rebuilding be a better option ?

Quartz · 3 Jun 2017 at 18:59

Is this RAID 1, RAID 5, or what? Rebuild times can be extended on RAID 5 - even a week. I run my Microserver as a pair of RAID 1 arrays.

2013 · 3 Jun 2017 at 19:29

I think mine is raid (set up as mirroring).

Will the amber light still show till its done ?
Will I loose any of the data i backed up recently ?
Is it possible to cancel it and just backup what i currently have ?

Quartz · 3 Jun 2017 at 20:47

2013 said:
I think mine is raid (set up as mirroring).

Will the amber light still show till its done ?

I don't know.

Will I loose any of the data i backed up recently ?

If this is data backed up TO the array, then you will only lose it if another drive fails.

Is it possible to cancel it and just backup what i currently have ?

Don't bother. Putting in a new drive will engender the same rebuild time. Just be patient and let it finish

nutcase · 4 Jun 2017 at 08:31

I'm predicting R5 with multi-TB drives. Cross your fingers

2013 · 4 Jun 2017 at 16:58

nutcase said:
I'm predicting R5 with multi-TB drives. Cross your fingers

What is R5 ?

GDL · 4 Jun 2017 at 17:08

Raid 5.

2013 · 4 Jun 2017 at 17:11

Thanks

Avalon · 6 Jun 2017 at 17:17

You will have lost nothing unless it's RAID 0, then you've lost everything, that's the whole point of RAID, however if it is R1 (mirror), then it wouldn't rebuild as such without having a hot spare which you haven't mentioned. If it's R5 then it'll take a long time to rebuild, also the risk of an additional drive failing is higher and you have no spare in play.

Start off by giving us some relevant information, OS, array type and size and if you have backups (RAID is *NOT* a backup).

2013 · 6 Jun 2017 at 18:29

I'm running windows 10

I'm not sure what raid im running, Ive added a few images below if you can help,
I have 2 3tb drives

I dont Have a backup

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Quartz · 6 Jun 2017 at 20:00

That looks to me like you've got two 3 TB drives in RAID 0. As such, you've just learned why RAID 0 can be a bad idea. Backup as much as you can right now, let the controller rebuild the array, and cross your fingers that everything works out.

nutcase · 6 Jun 2017 at 20:51

It says RAID 1 - so at the moment you shouldn't have lost anything. What happens if you press F1 to attempt to retry recovery as per the boot screen?

Otherwise time to replace a disk. And make a backup...

2013 · 6 Jun 2017 at 20:52

I dont know whats happened but no drive is loading now other then the OS

I cant even Backup my data now, Is there a way to recover the data ?

2013 · 6 Jun 2017 at 20:57

nutcase said:
It says RAID 1 - so at the moment you shouldn't have lost anything. What happens if you press F1 to attempt to retry recovery as per the boot screen?

Otherwise time to replace a disk. And make a backup...

Ok i see it now raid1 (I must have been blind due to stress)

but for some reason I cant see any drive in windows other then the OS drive so i cant backup also the drives are full so i cant recover.

edit: must have been something simple, I rebooted and a drive is showing now, what can I and should I do now ? I don't have any spare drives, can i remove the issue drive ?

Xez · 6 Jun 2017 at 21:44

You need a new hard drive, same make, model and size as soon as possible so the problem drive can be replaced and the raid can rebuild. without it you risk loosing everything if the other healthy drive goes. leaving the bad drive won't do any harm at the moment.

2013 · 6 Jun 2017 at 21:52

finding the same model may be a issue.

Does it need to be the same make and model ?

Quartz · 6 Jun 2017 at 22:03

nutcase said:
It says RAID 1 - so at the moment you shouldn't have lost anything

Right. I misread the last image. In which case, the OP has instead learned a valuable lesson in why RAID 1 is a good idea.

2013 said:
Does it need to be the same make and model ?

Not really, though it's best. But it needs to be at least as large as the other drive. However, now may be the time to change both of them. Is the good drive readable outside of the array? If so, remove it, put in a new pair of drives as a new RAID 1 array and copy from the old disk onto the new array.

2013 · 6 Jun 2017 at 22:17

Quartz said:
Right. I misread the last image. In which case, the OP has instead learned a valuable lesson in why RAID 1 is a good idea.

I did, it had me really stresses, I could not figure out what the issue was and worrying about the other possibilities.

Quartz said:
Not really, though it's best. But it needs to be at least as large as the other drive. However, now may be the time to change both of them. Is the good drive readable outside of the array? If so, remove it, put in a new pair of drives as a new RAID 1 array and copy from the old disk onto the new array.

I don't think I could afford to replace both drives, Im going to struggle with just one. the prices have gone up a bit in the last 2 years.
which manufacturer offers the best warranty and life in NAS, is it still WD Red ?