[aklug] Re: Sudden slow file system access

RMA the drives.

On 01/28/2011 08:35 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> On 01/28/11 09:12, Shane R. Spencer wrote:
>> Did you ever replace that failing drive?
>>
> Negative. Just dropped it from the array. Probably buy another one when
> I get my next pay-check. Although, to be honest, I'm a bit miffed since
> the last two drives I've bought now have both failed (one WD, one
> Seagate) within two months of purchase. Not sure what brand to buy this
> time.
>
> The Seagate drive filled up with bad sectors, and the WD drive kept
> having screwy i/o errors that ruined my file system. Thought it might
> have been a bad SATA controller... however, one other WD drive I have in
> there never seems to have any trouble, regardless of which controller I
> cable it to.
>
> So I'm running on a broken RAID1 array and remote rsync backups until I
> decide what to do.
>

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Adam
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