No, it’s not that kind of little death. If only it were. I’d feel much better right about now.
Mere moments after I walked in the door at work today, we took a power hit. The UPS that’s supposed to keep our Avid powered up shrieked its monotone shriek as the whole thing went down and rebooted. And when it came back up, it showed me copious error messages claiming to have lost all media on Drive E.
This is a bad thing. This is a very bad thing.
The new PC-based Avid system stripes media across two SCSI drives, E and F. It doesn’t stripe them redundantly, however, so if you lose E, well…you’re F’ed. I called Avid tech support and they helped me out very quickly – and it turned out that the error message I was getting required manually deleting two files from Drive E and then restarting so the machine would re-index all the media on Drive E. That’s it. Turns out this isn’t that uncommon. Turns out E wasn’t F’ed. Turns out I didn’t lose any media.
Hey, Avid, thanks for the help. And please come pick up your heart attack at your earliest convenience. I’m done with it.
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Wow, I can’t believe such a critical application would run RAID 0 instead of RAID 5 (with parity). If you lose a hard drive in that current configuration, as you pointed out, you’re F’ed. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been saved by RAID 5 — I even run a software raid on my home server now.
Our old Mac-based system used to run RAID 5, and I don’t know why this one wasn’t installed the same way. (And the company themselves installed it!) And let’s not forget, right smack in the middle of November sweeps is a perfect time for something like this to happen.