3Ware 9550SXU-16ML User Guide - Page 191
Rebuilding Units, the failed drives are only half of each mirrored pair.
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Rebuilding Units Rebuilding Units If a hot spare is specified and a redundant unit degrades, an event notification is generated and the hot spare dynamically replaces the failed drive in the redundant unit without user intervention. The rebuild process will automatically be launched as a background process at the next scheduled time. If scheduling is turned off, the rebuild process will start almost immediately (within a few minutes). If 3DM is running and E-mail notification is enabled, an event notification will be sent to specified users when the rebuild process starts and when it completes. For 9550SX controllers, if Auto-Rebuild is enabled, the firmware will attempt to rebuild a degraded unit with an available drive or a failed drive. If desired, you can manually replace the drive, rescan the controller, and start the rebuild process. Manual rebuilds can be started from either 3BM or 3DM, although the rebuild itself only happens when the operating system is running. If multiple drives are faulted in a RAID 10 configuration, the drives are rebuilt simultaneously. In a 4-drive RAID 10 configuration, up to two drives can be rebuilt. In a 6-drive configuration, up to three drives can be rebuilt. In an 8-drive configuration, up to four drives can be rebuilt. In a 12-drive configuration, up to six drives can be rebuilt. Note: If both drives in a RAID 10 mirror set are faulted, the data is not recoverable. Up to half of the drives in a RAID 10 unit can become defective and still have the user data retained, as long as the failed drives are only half of each mirrored pair. A RAID 50 unit can also sustain multiple drive failures, as long there is only one failed drive in each RAID 5 set. When a RAID 5 is running in Degraded mode, the missing data is reconstructed from all non-degraded drives. Note: If a rebuild fails, check the Alarms page for the reason. If there was an ECC error on the source disk, you can force the rebuild to continue by checking the Overwrite ECC Error policy on the Controller Settings page in 3DM and then running Rebuild again. This will cause uncorrectable blocks to be rewritten, but the data may be incorrect. It is recommended that you execute a file system check when the rebuild completes. www.3ware.com 181