I have a HP Proliant DL380 G7 with said array controller and 6 INTEL SSDSC2KW4's, set up in Raid 5.
Normally I have never had problems with SATA drives in servers, but this one has me baffled.
I have installed ESXi 6 on it, and this usually goes quite OK. Sometimes i get to install a couple of virtual computers, but suddenly it tells me that the Drive status has failed (to a variable amount of disks), and the array has gone offline. I can go, take the disk out, and put it in again, and it works fine.
This usually happens when i transfer some GB of data to it. If it has ex. a router running that does not write much to the SSD's, it can be stable for over 20 days without caring to much.
Anyone experienced anything like this? Or on general basis have some tips on how to proceed?
Best Answer
You're not supposed to do this.
The HP Smart Array P410i RAID controller is not compatible with every SSD. You can't just toss some consumer drives into the server and expect them to work. HP protects/guards against that by restricting third-party drive use in their servers.
The drives have NOT failed, but they definitely are not meant to be used with that controller.
Reasons why:
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