[mythtv-users] Reassemble RAID with mdadm

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 14:48:12 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, freedenizen <freedenizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:39 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using desktop WDC and Seagate drives (even 7200.11 drives) and do
>> not experience any where near this failure rate. To me this is insane.
>>
>> John
>
> Perhaps I should clarify, I replace the drives prior to failure, as
> well, sometimes they will get a bad sector that can't be remapped and
> I will replace it.
>
I do the same and I am seeing a 1% to 5% failure rate per year on
machines running desktop drives in linux software raid arrays that run
24/7/365 and that have a lot of traffic. Not continuous but 10s to
100s of GB per day.

John


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