<div dir="ltr">> I do not believe this is a hardware problem either. In my experience<br>
> with md (I have 100+ drives in linux software raid 5 and 6 at home and<br>
> at work) if there is any kind of disk hardware problem (like a loose<br>
> power connector) md will kick the drive out of the array and happily<br>
> go on without corrupting data until the second or third drive (raid 6)<br>
> is kicked out and in this case the whole array will go down.<br>This let me trust in mdadm again.<br><br>> John<br><br>Kind regards.<br></div>