Unscheduled maintenance
4:00am ?!?! what on earth woke me up at this ungodly hour ?! As i slowly regained consciousness the obvious answer became clear. Yep, it must have been the loud beeping noise coming from the “server room”..
When opening the somewhat sound-insulated door i recognized the ‘beeping’, it was the RAID controller in the fileserver which clearly has had an argument with one of the disks.. Although i didn’t really appreciate it at that moment, I must say Intel did a nice job to encorporate a buzzer in their product. If something is able to wake me up in the middle of the night, it must be good 
It wasn’t hard to find the other suspect of this disturbance, the faulty disk was clearly pointed out by the  ’overheat’ indicator on the SATA RAID enclosure, which also has a nice alarm buzzer. Luckily not as loud as the Intel controller and easy to shut off. At the press of a button i  ’reset’ the enclosure alarm, a few seconds of terminal-keyboard action later and the RAID controller alarm was silenced as well. And back to bed I went…
This is what i found the next morning:
.. along with an astounishing 5 MB/sec read/write performance on the file shares. I had planned to do some TCP/IP optimization on my workstation to boost iSCSI performance. Today is clearly not the day for that kind of stuff. Ah well, I’m off to do some shopping then..
September 5th, 2010 at 22:29
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