Utterly Gutted

["Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some of you don't
make the mistakes I did......

I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000 hardware raid card
with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by any stretch of the imagination)
thinking this would keep my data safe. One of the drives failed yesterday -
 I didn't panic - put in a replacement - the array rebuilt itself and all
the lights went green. Rebooted XP and nothing..... the array appeared as
un-partitioned space. All the data is gone including all our photos
(including those of my newborn daughter) / videos all our documents. The
500 albums I ripped and god knows what else.

I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they are in any way
safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get backing up - Raid as far as I
can see is worthless. The one time I needed it it failed.


Chris (Gutted)

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