23 Dec
2005
23 Dec
'05
9:55 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
What's irritating is that, in a RAID system, if they don't spin back up quickly
enough, the RAID card thinks the drive has failed and goes degraded. It's easy
enough to disconnect then reconnect the drive, but I'll go with better calibre
drives in my RAID next time.
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Western Digital
drives don't fail on me as much as they "pause for no good
reason". I have WD 600ABs in my RAID and for no reason they'll just
decide to
lock up for 1-8 seconds on a write (never a read). I've checked SMART and
it's
not errors -- thermal recalibration maybe?
I've seen this too and it seems as if the drives spin down for a moment and
then back up again. I have no idea what causes it.