In the IT world I just won the Lottery Twice....
Today we had a hard drive fail in a raid array. A few hours later we had another drive fail on a different server.... We started checking all the environmental logs and systems immediately. Humidity is 40%, temp is at 75*, no dust or other particulates flying around. We checked the UPS logs, no spikes reported. About 3 hours later another hard drive failed on a 3rd system....
To recap 3 HP DL380 G7's, these servers are all sequential serial numbers. The drives are not from the same lot though I bet the array controllers and boards are. HP will be out in the morning.... In the meantime we are hoping this does not become a habit... We have had 1 drive fail in this entire server rack in 2.5 years. Today 3 within 12 hours!
What else should we be looking for? Has anyone else had a similar problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated. This incident has consumed our spares.... If we have another fail we will be looking for HP to swap them.
Update: These are 146 GB 10k rpm SAS Drives and one 300 GB 10k rpm SAS Drive. HP original equipment.