Automatic Data Recovery (Rebuild); Time Required For A Rebuild; Failure Of Another Drive During Rebuild - HP 418800-B21 - StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 70 Storage Enclosure User Manual

• If the offline drive is a spare, the degraded drive can be replaced.
• Do not remove a second drive from an array until the first failed or missing drive has been
replaced and the rebuild process is complete. (The rebuild is complete when the Online LED on
the front of the drive stops blinking.)
Exceptions:
• In RAID 6 with ADG configurations, any two drives in the array can be replaced
simultaneously.
• In RAID 1+0 configurations, any drives that are not mirrored to other removed or failed drives
can be simultaneously replaced offline without data loss.

Automatic data recovery (rebuild)

When you replace a hard drive in an array, the controller uses the fault-tolerance information on the
remaining drives in the array to reconstruct the missing data (the data that was originally on the replaced
drive) and write it to the replacement drive. This process is called automatic data recovery, or rebuild. If
fault tolerance is compromised, this data cannot be reconstructed and is likely to be permanently lost.
If another drive in the array fails while fault tolerance is unavailable during rebuild, a fatal system error
may occur, and all data on the array is then lost. In exceptional cases, however, failure of another drive
need not lead to a fatal system error. These exceptions include:
• Failure after activation of a spare drive.
• Failure of a drive that is not mirrored to any other failed drives (in a RAID 1+0 configuration).
• Failure of a second drive in a RAID 6 with ADG configuration.

Time required for a rebuild

The time required for a rebuild varies considerably, depending on several factors:
• The priority that the rebuild is given over normal I/O operations (you can change the priority
setting by using ACU)
• The amount of I/O activity during the rebuild operation
• The rotational speed of the hard drives
• The availability of drive cache
• The brand, model, and age of the drives
• The amount of unused capacity on the drives
• The number of drives in the array (for RAID 5 and RAID 6 with ADG)
Allow approximately 15 minutes per gigabyte for the rebuild process to be completed. This figure is
conservative, and newer drive models usually require less time to rebuild.
System performance is affected during the rebuild, and the system is unprotected against further drive
failure until the rebuild has finished. Therefore, replace drives during periods of low activity when possible.
CAUTION:
If the Online LED of the replacement drive stops blinking and the amber fault LED glows, or if other drive
LEDs in the array go out, the replacement drive has failed and is producing unrecoverable disk errors.
Remove and replace the failed replacement drive.
When automatic data recovery has finished, the online LED of the replacement drive stops blinking
and begins to glow steadily.

Failure of another drive during rebuild

If a non-correctable read error occurs on another physical drive in the array during the rebuild process,
the Online LED of the replacement drive stops blinking and the rebuild abnormally terminates.
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