Well… last month we had one drive completely fail, which is what these arrays are supposed to protect against. However, when this happened, there were enough bad blocks on another disk that we had some affected volumes.
I’m used to dealing with dumb RAIDs that completely fail on things like these, so I was relieved that my year old EqualLogic simply told me which volumes were affected and moved on.
During our initial tech support call with Dell, we decided to go ahead and replace the disk with bad blocks as well. They only overnighted one drive… which is fine, you cant replace them both at the same time… so we got the other later that week.
Now that the rebuild is complete… I’m left with the unenviable task of breaking a functioning array and hoping it rebuilds. Time to verify all my backups…
