[aklug] Re: Bad disk...?

And though the lyric runs "Compared to what?", the "I" in RAID stands for "i=
nexpensive" - better to toss a dubious cheap disk then spend cycles kicking y=
ourself for defeating the purpose of the array ....

On Jan 17, 2011, at 9:19 PM, Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:

> Thankfully you can take the drive out and return it for a new one
> since it's in a mirror. Bad sectors early on =3D bad data very soon.
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> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
>> My main desktop PC is a two-disk raid-1 array. The SMART Data disk
>> analyser tool in my Gnome desktop just gave me a warning indicating that
>> one of the disks is failing. However, when I looked at the details, the
>> only thing it shows wrong is that 55 sectors are bad and had to be
>> reallocated. However, I just bought the disk about two months ago. Since
>> sectors are only 512 bytes large (thus saith the Google), and it is a
>> 500GB drive, I'm wondering if this is something I should take seriously,
>> or if it is okay to lose a few sectors here and there on a large disk.
>> And if this is a sign of immanent disk failure, should I immediately
>> take the disk out of the array?
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>> Advice?
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