Well it was bound to happen sooner or later. I have officially encountered my first raid problem. Seems that during the recent batch of power outages, one of which was longer than my UPS was able to cover. Transformed my raid volume from healthy to degraded.

I didn’t even notice, it just kept plugging along with one of the drives considered to be missing. A reboot allowed the system to see the drive again and I am currently resyncing. But fishing through the event viewer has shown a lot of bad blocks detected on the first drive.

*Sigh, seems I will be needing new drives sooner rather than later. I also need to set my UPS to power down my system, and to find some sort of monitoring software.

On a side note regarding “raids”. And you know who you are. I believe you promised to scp me a couple of files? After your raid…sound familiar? It should. I am still waiting, I guess Joe was right. “Raids do take a long time.”