Hello,   RAID50 is two RAID5's  striped together.  So each RAID5 stripe can only handle one drive failure.   You should have also had two SPARE drives?    Which should have replaced the failed one automatically.  if not, or if you were running with  'no spares' option then the another failure on either RAIDset will cause an outage of that entire array.  Once you resolve the failed drive situation you might want to consider converting to RAID6.    Regards,  Don   
Hi, I am new to these Devices, in my environment we have 2 Dell EquilLogic devices and we got Failed drives on both devices. These are out of support i believe  Slot Type Model Size RPM Status Errors SMART Health---- -------- ---------------- ----------- ----- --------- ------ ------------ 1 SAS(HDD) Unavailable 0MB 10000 failed 0 unavailable 2 SAS(HDD) Unavailable 0MB 10000 failed 0 unavailable 7 SAS(HDD) Unavailable 0MB 10000 failed 0 unavailable Is it straight forward to replace these? Like Order new Drives and pull the failed once and replaced with new? If not do i need to follow any other steps from CLI or GUI before and after the replacement?   One more Query: I can also see it has some failed components but it's now showing what exactly failed?? Is there a way to find out what failed here? Health Status Details  Critical conditions::Critical hardware component failure. Warning conditions::More spare drives are expected. any help would be a great help and much appreciated. Thanks in advance._______________________________________________________________________________
Steps to follow to replace a Failed Drive in PS6100