@Dashrender said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

@manxam said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

It's not uncommon at all. Your other drives are most likely to fail during a rebuild due to the added stress of continual access during this process.
That's what makes something like RAID 5 on spinning rust so scary.

If all of the drives in the array are of similar age and from the same batch, I'd plan on swapping them all within the next while as each successive rebuild takes its toll on the remaining drives.

Agreed - and double check those backups.

I have doubled and tripled checked. Did a couple restores today with single files and also entire VM's. (Currently using Veeam)

@phlipelder said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB:

@dustinb3403 said in Dell Perc H710P 1GB:

Does the Perc H710P 1GB raid controller have a battery backup option I'm just not seeing?

I think all of Dell's PERC series RAID controllers are NVRAM for Cache? Meaning, no need for a cache battery module.

Nowadays, pretty much.

@Tim_G said in Caching Needs and SSDs:

you have something on I/O path going wrong ;(

What do you mean? Everything looks good and appears to be going smooth according to all monitoring. No errors or performance issues.

It's been doing a very good job the past couple years. I keep it fairly updated. So if something recent broke something on it, let me know and I'll hold off on updating.

@xByteSean said:

@BRRABill Yes as a matter of fact we do. Any proof of concept box can be configured and shipped to you, and if it didn't fit your needs we would provide the return shipping label at no cost to you.

That is very awesome!

@BRRABill said:

It seems as though you can install another DC, then replicate, then demote the EVAL one.

But I think I'll just go with not doing that. 🙂

Yes, it wouldn't be a functional AD if you could not do that. You risk schema issues, though.

I still have it around if you want to test.

@creayt said in Testing the Limits of the Dell H710 RAID Controller with SSD:

Link seems to not work.

A bit of necromancy there. . .

Make sure that you post back here when you learn more. Everyone is, I imagine, pretty interested in this one.