8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
7:48 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 11:53:14PM -0400, Scott Quinn wrote:
In fact, based on what I've seen and heard I'd
replace more of the drives once you get the bad drive replaced
and the array rebuilt, especially if the drives are from the same batch. Marginal drives
can and do
go out during rebuilds. Of course, if the data on the array isn't critical then this
becomes much more flexible-
but if it is then you don't want to have your second drive go at some point in the
near future ...
RAID != backup
Not enough people remember this.
If a second disk dies in *my* RAID, it's annoying, but I don't lose
data. Well, I lose anything since the last backup, but given that those
happen every 24 hours, it's not *that* much data and I can reconstruct
it pretty easily.
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