I’ve been a computer tech for over ten years.

I know that people have hardware preferences out there, and I know they differ, but here’s mine: I don’t buy Seagate drives. I took the ix2 apart AGAIN, and removed the barely 3 year old Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 out of the device. The Green drives are quieter, a little slower, and use less power – great for this application. Later that afternoon I picked up a 500GB WD Caviar Green from BB for $56. 😐 Well, at least my email script still works. To prevent possible data loss, this issue should be repaired as soon as possible.Īwesome. Visit the Dashboard on the management interface for details. A drive may have either failed or been removed from your Iomega StorCenter device. The Iomega StorCenter device is degraded and data protection is at risk. The next morning I checked my email and received this from sohostoarge: When I returned, the missing drive was back online and was crisis averted? Nope. Okay – time to get dinner and wait for this to finish. A few minutes later I ran the command and got something like 33.8% with 132 minutes remaining. At first I saw that the drive was rebuilding and was at 32.4% with 109 minutes remaining. Connect via SSH and run this command: cat /proc/mdstat You’ll get actual information about what’s going on. “You respond to a ping, but that’s it.” No web interface… Well, let’s see what’s really going on. What I next learned was that I have little patience for blinking lights. In order to see that it was a drive that had failed and not the board, I swapped the SATA cables for the two drives, tightened it all up and turned it back on. Once copied, I completely shutdown the Storcenter, opened it and checked the connections. I immediately made a backup to my workstation. I logged into my Iomega Storcenter ix2 and the dashboard told me the news: “A drive is missing from the device” I was copying pictures to my network drive and I noticed that it was responding slowly.

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