@Dashrender said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

@manxam said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

It's not uncommon at all. Your other drives are most likely to fail during a rebuild due to the added stress of continual access during this process.
That's what makes something like RAID 5 on spinning rust so scary.

If all of the drives in the array are of similar age and from the same batch, I'd plan on swapping them all within the next while as each successive rebuild takes its toll on the remaining drives.

Agreed - and double check those backups.

I have doubled and tripled checked. Did a couple restores today with single files and also entire VM's. (Currently using Veeam)

Glad to know this worked. I have had 3 different Synology NAS boxes over the past 6 years- An 1812+ that was just retired, 1813+, still going after almost 5 years and a new 3617xs and wondered what would happen if the box died. Never had any issues with any (knocking on wood).

@JaredBusch said in Why HALizard and XenServer Failed so heavily:

@Dashrender said in Why HALizard and XenServer Failed so heavily:

Considering the industry standard to run VM hosts from USB sticks/SD cards.

No it is not. Never has been. I've debated this back and forth with @scottalanmiller more than once.

Hopefully his recent post today clarifies that.

yep, it does.

Question: have you tried setting up the DHCP server as the time master, and having the Centos system sync time to the DHCP server (with said DHCP server syncing to NIST or whatever time source you prefer) instead of the NTP Pool? That way theoretically DHCP server and Centos should be at the same time. Just a thought.

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