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In the last seven days I have seen not one, or two, not even half a
dozen but SEVEN FC #4326 35GB 15K RPM SCSI Drives toss their bits.
Now if this was on one server I'd have a sense of humor about it, you
know maybe power or cooling etc. However these were on FOUR different
servers, in two states, and two countries.
Two of the systems crashed requiring complete system recovery. In none
of the systems was Hot Spare implemented.
Ladies and Gentlemen these are the oldest of the 15K Drives we have.
They were announced at least as far back as 2003 with the i810 family of
servers. If you had one of these running since then it would have
rotated nearly 100 BILLION times, so those bearings just may be a wee
bit tired by now.
Maybe it's time these drives begin their migration out of production! At
lease implement hot spare if you have V5R4M5 or newer LIC and of course
bring to mind the three first words ever spoken by the IBM i database to
Mr TAA himself, Jim Sloan: "Backup Backup Backup."
DrF
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