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Degraded refers to a fallback mode that continues to allow the usage of the storage array, but at a lower performance level.

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3ware 9650SE-24 Raid-50 stuck

One mornig after starting the NAS five drives were "Degraded". -The night before everything was fine.- The Raid-50 (Unit 3) is build up of three Raid-5 with seven disk each. All disk 2 TB. ...
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ZFS issues with reboot

After a reboot on Debian 11, I experienced 4 drives that just disappeared for no apparent reason. 2 are 'faulted' and 2 says they are unavailable. Question: How do I identify the disks with the ...
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RAID10 with 2 failed drives

I have 4 disks in a raid10 array into a dell server. 2 drives are failed right now. The failed drives are not in the same group (1+2 and 3+4), drives failed are 2 and 3. The server is still running, ...
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Lost RAID 1 on 3ware controller. Good drive booted up with old data [closed]

Server is running Windows 2008R2. Drive failed and reported degraded, but restarted and OS loaded. The good drive is a copy from 5/2021 almost 8 months ago. Is it possible the drive stopped copying ...
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zfs does not recognize its own physical disks

I have repeating problem with the zfs pool where zfs stops recognizing its own, properly labeled (or so it appears) physical devices. Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS 5.11.0-44-generic #48~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue ...
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How to fix ZFS pool once spare replacement done or how to correct spare replacement

I have a ZFS pool in the current state: [root@SERVER-abc ~]# zpool status -v DATAPOOL pool: DATAPOOL state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an error resulting in data ...
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RAID1 array always degraded when rebooted after changing SATA controller

My software RAID1 arrays (/boot, /) always become degraded when restarted after adding SATA controller. It's CentOS 7. Here is what happening and what had been done: I made 4-disks RAID1 arrays with ...
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Rebooted Ubuntu, Raid6 degraded, Raid5 ok [closed]

Boot Drive is a WD 1TB SSD running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS... I have 2 arrays running off 1 LSI Card... 16 x 8tb IronWolf inside a RaidMachine (Raid 6) [my main data] 11 x 10tb Exos inside a SuperMicro (Raid ...
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DEGRADED zfs pool vs FAULTED

My backup NAS (Arch-based) reports a degraded pool. It also report a degraded disk as "repairing". I'm confused by this. Presuming that faulted is worse that degraded, should I be worried? zpool ...
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RAID 5 virtual disk still shows up as degraded after repair

On a machine running Windows Server 2012 R2, I have a virtual disk consisting of 8 physical disks in a RAID-5 configuration. One drive died, so I replaced the dead drive and followed these ...
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Degraded volume on Synology NAS

Today my Synology NAS's OS (DSM) told me that I have a degraded volume. The advice on their site is to replace the failed drive. I've gone ahead and bought the same drive model and capacity, and it ...
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Raid 5 Recovery Process

I just recently setup a 3 drive 4TB MDRAID 5 array for mirroring and an online backup of our server. I am preparing for a future hardware (drive) failure and wanted to mitigate a recovery failure ...
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Two drive ZFS pool, second drive overwritten with data. How do I restore/copy data back to the second drive?

Data is intact in the first drive, second drive is "UNAVAIL". Reason for overwrite is my lack of concentration while applying dd command ... Command sudo zpool replace -f hgst 4596995095197485503 /...
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HP Proliant ML350 G6 SMH reporting error with Smart Array

Our HP Proliant ML350 G6 recently turned off by itself for the first time, with the "Health LED" indicating degraded state. As soon as I pressed the power button, the LED went back to green, so after ...
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How to create degraded raid6 array using megacli

There is a server with few disks. And - a new server with PERC controller. I would like to migrate existing data into a new server to raid6 which uses 6 disks(4+2). Unfortunly - i don't have enought ...
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Ganeti disks degraded drbd cs:NetworkFailure

I have an instance (with 2disks) on Ganeti with both disks degraded (probably due to a connection problem?). This instance was working correctly for many years until this morning. On my master $ gnt-...
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zfs zpool degraded drive missing

I have a degraded zpool called storage of 4 6TB Drives in 2 mirrors. One of the drives on the second mirror is unavailable. All cables seem to to be plugged in physically. Did my device id change? ...
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How to show degraded pool under SCVMM?

Does SCVMM show degraded pool information? When a disk, which is part of a storage pool, goes down, therefore changing the pool status, where and how can I see this information under SCVMM? Server ...
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How to auto-start Degraded Software RAID1 under Debian 8.0.0 on boot?

If you remove a component HDD from an array, it drops into a "busy box" shell under "(initramfs)" saying something similar to "cannot mount root device" as the RAID1 array becomes "inactive". It is ...
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After power loss, my RAID config changed, some drives marked as foreign, but all data still there

I have a Perc 5/i in a Dell Precision 590. The controller DOES have a battery backup, and the controller reports that its status is healthy. There are five 1TB SATA drives connected to the controller. ...
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P4500 Lefthand SAN report degraded on one node when all disks are health "NORMAL"

I am experiencing a strange condition with our HP G1 lefthand SAN cluster. The cluster consists of 4 nodes across two sites, two nodes ( node 1 & 2 )in each site are RAID5 across the pair, and ...
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Mac Pro says RAID degraded but all drives showing green status

OSX 10.9 - RAID Utility says RAID array is degraded but all drives are showing green All started after error log Drive 3:5000c5004e189ddf missing - Previous drive status was inuse Now getting ...
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3ware raid controller, unit unusable, several degraded disks

I was switching the disk drives in my server, running RAID 6 on 5 disks on a 3ware 9650SE controller, for newer disks and have run into a problem. The two first disks went fine, I took out one disk ...
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what harm can writeback caching have on a degraded disk array?

At work I administer several machines using (real) hardware raid controllers (with battery backed write caches), and these have the nasty habit of falling back to writethrough behaviour when an array ...
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Artificially degrade apache2 performance to meet real world conditions

I want to degrade my apache2 development server performance (it's on a local network) to simulate real world conditions (lag, slow connections, random timeouts...). Is there any apache mod to do ...
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NAS device claims drive in a RAID is degraded but S.M.A.R.T. says it is fine

I have a Synology DS213 with two 600GB drives in RAID 1. Last night the device reported that my second drive had become degraded and that I should replace it. When I ran a extensive S.M.A.R.T. test ...
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How to resolve virtual disk degraded in Windows Server 2012

I am using the new Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server 2012. I have the following disks: FriendlyName CanPool OperationalStatus HealthStatus Usage ...
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Virtual Disk Degraded

There is a physical DC with a Raid 1 Mirror, 2 Physical Disks, 500GB each. Dell Server Administrator is installed on the DC, and is reporting both physical disks are fine, online, in a good state etc. ...
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Ubuntu server boot degraded raid

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.1 in a new server and set up the 4 hard drives with 3 RAID 1 devices, the configuration is such that the first two drives have md0 (swap space) and md1 (/) with the third ...
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Is there a way to prevent a SW RAID 1 from degrading?

I have a number of Debian servers in a datacenter and from time to time I notice that the software RAID 1 was degraded. While the re-sync process starts automatically and I don't lose any data I find ...
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Raid1 degraded after every reboot

After setup, cat /proc/mdstat output looks like this: proxmox:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md0 : active raid1 sdc2[1] sdb2[0] ...
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Debian, mdadm, Degraded Array, disk became spare after re-added

Tonight i received a message generated by mdadm on my server: This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md3. Faithfully ...
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Ubuntu raid - replacing drive?

I've set up software RAID1 with the latest Ubuntu version - 11.04 using two 250GB harddrives which initially worked great. Tried to unplug both and computer still started with degraded raid status - ...
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Boot Debian while RAID array is degraded

Recently, I came across Ubuntu Server install. During install, it asked me whether or not to allow booting system from degraded RAID array (probably because I installed system onto RAID1 /dev/md0 ...
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LTO-4 tape shelf life estimation?

LTO tapes, Maxell in this case, are often marketed as having 30 years or more shelf life when stored under "optimal conditions" Is there a way to get a good estimation to the shelf life, given ...
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