[mythtv-users] Reassemble RAID with mdadm

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00 AM, freedenizen <freedenizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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