Server downtime 10/18/11

[afaka bambata]

is the server still down?

[Recon-Roth]

VLADA? When do we get the next update from server central?

[refreund]

what's an SSD failure?

[Ellyssia]

what's an SSD failure?

Failure of one of the Solid State Drives.

[atldarkphoenix]

not good when solid state drives go on the kaputs

[Fellon]

ok, was it a HDD or a SSD that broke this time?

[atldarkphoenix]

ssd ssd ssd ssd ssd

[Ellyssia]

HDD (I believe, from what V said earlier)

[Fellon]

ok, thanks. I got alittle confused when i did see all talk about ssd but that was last time it happend then...

[Ellyssia]

ok, thanks. I got alittle confused when i did see all talk about ssd but that was last time it happend then...

We've had a few SSD failures in the past but apparently this time it was just a plain old normal HDD that died. Think the confusion came in when I answered what an SSD failure is.

[Fellon]

With all the faliures maybe its time to think about Raid 1 mirroring and hot swapping.

[StarWarsFreak]

With all the faliures maybe its time to think about Raid 1 mirroring and hot swapping.

The drives which crashed were running in a RAID10, if it wasn't, this crash would've meant the loss of ALL data. But even with RAID of any sorts, if a drive goes bad, it can take a GOOD long while for the data to be rebuilt if a new drive is put it considering if the RAID was some sort of mirrored array.

[nachttoter77]

Seems to me that they are not the only ones having problems with HDD and SDD as of late. I know about 5 friends that have had HDD issues including crashes recently as well as having had SSD and HDD issues at work. nothing that cannot be repaired but it takes time and there is always a risk of lost information. Good luck to those working on the situation.

Also thank you all involved for providing this community and for all their work on the SWGEmu Project.

[Sway Vogel]

So much for my POI runs... bleh. LOL

[atldarkphoenix]

why does it matter if hhd or ssd is broken? Its still off for quite some time.