OK, it looks like one of the hard drives was in the process of failing. After the latest power cycle, one of the drive lights doesn't come on at all and under Server Storage it's showing the drive as Missing.

I'm guessing I'll have to replace the drive, but it seems strange that it says "Missing" and not "Failed" or something like that.

Two questions:

1) I've tried reseating the drive in its current bay with no luck. Should I try moving the drive to another bay? I do have one other bay open, and I gues sit could be a problem with power to the bay instead of the drive (unlikely, I know). I wasn't sure if it would cause more problems to move a drive from one bay to another.

2) If I need to replace the drive, I assume the "Server Recovery" disk can help me recover whatever was there. Do I need to replace the drive with one of the same size, or can I replace it with a larger drive?

Thanks to all in advance,

My problems were related to a hard drive that eventually went bad and failed. I added a new drive to the server and removed the bad one and have been running fine since.

If you haven't enabled duplication yet on any of the folders you have on the server, I'd HIGHLY recommend it. That saved much of my data (but not backups) when my drive went. You may also want to install another drive now, if you have an open slot, and add it to your storage pool, just so you don't have to scramble for the extra space when a failing drive goes (if that is the problem).

I also decided to wipe and reinstall my system drive, since I was upgrading to a newer version of the O/S. Instructions for doing this can be found elsewhere in the forum. I lost my old backups when I did this, but the server has been running fine since then. The reinstall may be a little overkill, but since I lost some of the backups to the data problems anyway and I was thinking about upgrading, I figured it was a good time to do it.

Hope this info helps! Good luck!!