raid5

My RAID 5 on Buffalo TS5400D NAS don’t turn on, it may be out of order. What should I do with all the data that’s still on the disks? (I hope that all drives are working and my data is still there) There is no way to access the files by just connecting the disks to the computer. I can’t try...

The last three nights, one of my USB controllers has gone offline in the middle of the night, knocking 4 of my 8 disks offline. The first two times, I was able to get it working again with mdadm -A /dev/md0 -f /dev/sd[hgeflkji]. I tried that this morning and it's not working. Any ideas...

Hello everyone. This is my first post here and I'm at the end of my rope. Here is my situation: I have a Highpoint Rocketraid 2680SGL card running my array. Initially I had 4 1tb drives. Last Friday I added a fifth drive, and, followed the instructions from Highpoint, went through the steps...

Hi there: Thanks for reading this thread and I thank you in advance for any help you can provide. So this is what happened... I noticed that my MDADM RAID 5 array with drives ordered: /dev/sd[EFGHIABCDKJ]1 reported a failed drive -- /dev/sdb1. I stopped the array and ran smartctl -t long...