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

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
>> There are errors you don't see. Single-bit errors reading from the
>> physical disk will generally be corrected (ECC) by the firmware on
>> modern drives.
>
> But see, that CAN'T be the type of error they are talking about,
> because if the drive corrects it, then the RAID controller would never
> even know about it and the rebuild would happen successfully.
>

Since this thread I have checked most of my network at work. I have
gone through and run checks on nearly 30TB of software raid 5 / 6,
some of these arrays were created in 2004 and have been running
24/7/365 since then. I have not found a single URE.

John