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

[John Drescher]

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

Although I have not implemented this I agree that would help..

>The fact is that the URE of a disk is 1 in a few TB.  So you have a unreadable
>bit somewhere on your raid.  I just hope that you will never need it when
>doing a rebuild.

I have a muiti-drive tape autochanger that I use to make at least 2
backups of everything all of my raid arrays.

John