Are you burying your hard drives too soon?

According to Seagate Technology, a leading provider of disk drives, about 75% of all drives returned as failed really had no failures. Modern array controllers should discriminate between transient conditions and true failure - but because of the complex nature of storage system hardware, sometimes they can't.  This forces a “Service Event" - several layers of error-prone manual intervention, coupled with significant time and money—to occur.

Ironically, this Service Event is completely unnecessary nearly three-fourths of the time.

Micro Rebuild™ is iStor's underlying strategy against unresponsive commands.  For instance, the time it takes for a drive to reassign bad blocks on a media error can take longer than many Operating Systems are willing to tolerate.  This delay can cause the host to issue port resets, disconnects, or even simply stop interacting with the port completely. Unresponsive commands also often cause the underlying drive to be dropped from the system, requiring rebuilds to be initiated on redundant volumes. With the increasing size of drives and volumes, a rebuild can take many hours, even days to finish.  A micro rebuild will complete in a fraction of the time required to finish a full rebuild.

Micro Rebuild™ is a standard feature on all integraStor systems.