[mythtv-users] Hard Drive reliability esp. RAID issues

[Dan Wilga]

On 3/8/10 1:28 PM, Ian Oliver wrote:
> There are ways to improve handling of bad/pending sectors so that they don't lurk and explode
> during a rebuild. You can read all data during idle time, which allows drives to reallocate any
> sectors that are starting to go bad.

I run the /etc/cron.weekly/99-check-raid script, which is included with 
newer versions of mdadm, for just this purpose.
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Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."