Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 11:29:19 CDT 2012
Interesting that the Raid wouldn't have reacted to that failure better than that. I'm not up on my Raid levels but 1 includes mirroring isn't it? GK On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Well, I got a blue screen today and when I went downstairs to look at the > server, an SSD had failed. I could not even detect it nor get past the bios > where it was trying to detect SATA ports. This box is stuffed with drives > so I started with the SSDs (the most likely culprit) disconnecting all 4 (I > could now boot) and then one at a time until I found the one drive. > > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > > On 6/16/2012 10:53 AM, jwcolby wrote: >> >> My SQL Server blue screens about once a month or so. It does not appear >> to be heat related, or at >> least CPU heat related as I have top flight HSFs which hold the temps >> below 35 C. The temps in the >> case stay around that temperature or below. The blue screens appear to be >> SQL Server related, as >> they seem to be triggered by my doing something in SSMS. This last time I >> started an update query >> and it immediately blue screened, by which I mean I clicked start (the >> query) and the blue screen >> occurred. >> >> This is an AMD dual cpu server, both CPUs populated. 32 gigs ECC RAM on >> each side. Being a server >> there is no overclocking. There is a lot going on hardware wise however. >> I use an Areca 16 port >> RAID controller, RAID 6 arrays built from 1 tb WD black drives. I am >> using SSDs to create a Raid1 >> array hosting several of my Read Mostly databases. The specific update >> that caused the blue screen >> was not on SSD however, it was on the Areca rotating media raid 6. >> >> I am at a loss on how to troubleshoot. It "feels" like it must be a >> memory problem, and yet the >> memory is ECC. Perhaps I have a bad DIMM which just flakes out. >> > > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com