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[ikon]

At most, your icydock may be faulty. Way too many people have used it successfully for it to be unreliable.

Did you try formatting the drives in the icydock and then reinstall?

Agreed. Although, I've read about too many IcyDock failures to be completely comfortable recommending them. I'm suspicious there are QC issues with them.

[Greg Welch]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, please let us know where the fault lies.

This is precisely why I do not recommend using items like the IcyDOCK on your servers. It creates another failure point and adds unnecessary complexity. A simple RAID1 in the OS is the way to go for this type of application.

I also do a Raid 1 for OS (just works) plus i have a hot spare for it

[StanHD]

At most, your icydock may be faulty. Way too many people have used it successfully for it to be unreliable.

Did you try formatting the drives in the icydock and then reinstall?

Not yet, I wanted to get things stable, safe, re-backed up and usable first. I am fast approaching this now and then I will start investigating the Icydock and drives. It could well be a drive fault, or something caused by my own actions. I will see what I can determine.

[pcdoc]

Although I have not had any issues with the ICYdock and it has been very reliable, I must say I am no longer impressed with the idea of using painfully slow laptop drives in any system. I actually am thinking of switching to a faster single drive the next time I am in the mood to play with my home server now that I have installed Acronis as an extra measurement of safety for the OS.