Hello,
I have a home built server with a gigabyte P55-UD3 motherboard+core i5 750, running windows server 2008 R2 64 bit. And since yesterday it is running a raid 5 array of 6x2tb hitachi disks.
Now as most of you probably know after setting up the array it will start initializing, this process takes several days.
I am using intel matrix storage manager to monitor my raid array.
This manager started saying disk 1 encountered an "error". It seemed impossible to find out what error, but it was an error, and it made the entire array "degraded".
I decided to restart the computer not knowing what to do, and the disk was fine once more. But a few minutes later disk 6 was now showing errors!
Not only that but continueing through the process disk 6 eventually dropped out completely and the manager now told me all the data on the array was lost.
Luckily I didn't put any data on there yet since I don't trust things that I never used before.
Now presently, I have recreated the array in order to fix it, I created a NEW raid5 array with a 64k strip size, and afterwards all 6 disks were OK.
So I went to bed in the hope that it would work now, but when I woke up, the initialisation stopped at 43% and this time disk 4 was the trouble maker.
I am no completely at an end, as I have no clue what it could be. I really doubt the hard drives are broken because they seem to restore themselves afterwards, but this way the array initialisation will never get to 100%.
Can anyone please help me?
PS: I just realised that after setting up this array for the first time, a process called xInsIDE.exe started crashing everytime the server booted, took it out of start up. Maybe this is the problem?
