[Wylug-discuss] Help needed with 'failed' Linux software RAID 10

[Christopher Brown]

On 21 June 2010 09:42, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Christopher Brown wrote:
>
>> I think an equally good question is:
>>
>> "How are you monitoring this?"
>>
>> Are the disks capable of being monitored in any way that will alert
>> you to failures.
>> Are you using SMART on the drives (this will start a whole new debate
>> but I'm for it)?
>
> Why, is there an anti-SMART school of thought?

Yes - some say it causes additional stress on the drive, causing it
fail earlier than it normally would.
I prefer a shorter but more predictable life to a longer less
predictable one - for my arrays that is. :)


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Christopher Brown