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    We have a 2 raid5 lacie backup servers at work, 1 raid is for current work and backup redundancies, the other raid is for backing up the backups. We have 8 drives in total at 3tb each.

    1 drive failed friday so we pulled it out and put in a new drive and the raid system rebuilt the information.

    Today, another drive failed in the other unit.

    Then the primary raid system crashed and another drive failed.

    Then the backup raid system crashed.

    At this point. All work gone. Data is still on the drives but the raid systems won't mount and disconnect after 5-20 minutes.

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    • All died at the sale time? Did you guys set up an self destruct count down clock for all of them at the same time?pango
    • It's crazy, 3 days apart both systems went down. I cant even think of the odds. Interwebs tells me lacie is junk.Hayoth
    • ya.... never liked lacie... at least they look pretty though.pango
    • don't work on it, give the drives to a recovery service, they'll handle itmekk
    • ^
      or just rsync when ever they mount!
      rule of thumb (experienced!)
      if its not backed up in 3 different locations on 3 different devices - its not backed up!      mugwart
    • Huh, LaCie's imploding?
      Whodathunkit?      detritus
    • Drives went to recovery this morning.Hayoth
    • are they enterprise level drives? we had a similar deal at my work - bunch of drives died over a few weeks. all consumer level.Gnash
    • They were consumer. Bad idea. Do you guys have suggestions moving forward? Enterprise ssd?Hayoth
    • ya, our IT guys begged the bean counters for enterprise level drives but they said, no go consumer.Gnash
    • Now, after a massive crash like you're, they have approved the expense of enterprise drivesGnash
    • SSD will cost a fortune, though. but nice if you can afford. we got enterprise spinners.Gnash
    • Ouch. Dirty power? Hot room? Had a similar disaster at an old job. I think it was the PSU dying and killing the drives. That was the hunch.monNom
    • Personally I think it was over use, they were consumer grade and doing nightly backups of 8TB. No update yet on data recovery.Hayoth
    • ^ i tend to agree with Hayoth. the things are spinning non-stop (and we do have a cold-room for the servers)Gnash
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