[mythtv-users] Reassemble RAID with mdadm

[freedenizen]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:40 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is something very strange here. I have 100+ such disks in raid
> and  I see 1 to 3 total failures per year running 24/7/365. And these
> are systems that I guarantee are used more than your Mythtv box.
>
> John

Seems about right to me, I see 3-4 drive failures a year that I
replace under warranty on a 6 disk array.  This was true when I was
using 500GB seagate drives, through the 1.5TB WD drives I have in
there now, and the other ones I had in between.  I'd run enterprise
class drives, but they don't make them in large capacities, and I
don't want to have to double the number of disks for the same space.
I'm also running raid6 after dealing with the a drive failure during
an array rebuild using raid5, and yes, I do scrub my arrays once a
month as well to check for errors.