PSA: Check the thermal paste on your LSI HBAs.
Mine just died so I took the heatsink off and the thermal paste was more a thermal solid.
Repasted the replacements I got immediately and the paste situation was similarily terrifying.
Took a lot of scraping to get it off even.
@Doridian Lot of dead LSI cards going around. Thank god my dad's RAID array was backed up or he'd have lost the entire contents. Every single disk is fine.
I'm thinking software RAID this time around.
@AVincentInSpace Yeah, I'm only using them as HBAs, not in RAID mode, so this is as simple as sticking in a different HBA or any other way to get access to my storage. Since it is all SAS based, at least in cables, I need some form of one anyway, and LSI is the most reliable brand imo.
All my RAID is either MD RAID1 or ZFS (RAIDZ2 specifically)
@AVincentInSpace And *especially* this specific HBA I should add.
This one is only used to access my tape autoloader and its drives. So it only cuts off access to backups, not even active data.