RAID is great but without monitoring and alerting you can still have a problem. Better still is the automatic creation of incident records and escalation.
mdadm can be scripted using any ordinary system health monitoring system. On some servers I was responsible for, I had automatic monitoring setup configured to send e-mail the instant any drive failure was noticed.
This is one of the nice things with open software. I can't imagine the trouble it would be to do the same for a proprietary raid card.
This is one of the nice things with open software. I can't imagine the trouble it would be to do the same for a proprietary raid card.