RE: Utterly Gutted

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Didn't Graham Howe have a similar problem about a year ago?

Shitty luck though - my comiserations.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Purves [mailto:CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 August 2004 21:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted
>
> 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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