RAID is an essential component of your storage system and serves as the primary defence mechanism in case of failures. Data storage administrators strive to reduce drive failures within a RAID group due to its critical importance. Given the significance of RAID in the storage industry, it is crucial to implement strategies to minimize and prevent RAID failures within your storage array.
Several approaches can be adopted by storage administrators to reduce the risk of RAID failure in their arrays. What measures can be taken to ensure the continuous operation of your environment?
Leverage Disk Monitoring Tools to Spot Drive Failures
Preventing downtime in your Data Center is a lot like maintaining your car. Being proactive goes a long way. Instead of ignoring the check engine light, it’s better to get the situation resolved as soon as possible.
The same goes for experiencing RAID failures, many organizations turn a blind eye to built-in error notifications, much to their own detriment. These tools and technologies can help spot error conditions so that bad disks can quickly be replaced. This allows your array to start the rebuilding process.
- Avoid reinserting a failing or faulty drive into your array to reduce risk and minimize downtime.
- Reintroducing such a drive can potentially affect all tiers of data in your system.
- When setting up RAID groups, use disks from different shelves to prevent continuous failures due to manufacturing defects.
- Expansion shelves typically contain drives from the same production line, so diversifying the sources of your drives can help mitigate this risk.
- If possible, create RAID groups using drives from multiple shelves to avoid potential issues.
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