On Sun, 02 May 2010 09:39:29 +0100, Dom <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the encouragement all, it made me feel a little better. Good > news though, after rebooting the Coraid disk unit 2 of the 3 failed > disks came back online so my system is working again. I'll have to > arrange a replacement on Monday. As it's a brand new system I've not had
> chance to look into the monitoring side and it's so early on in the > development of this we haven't even got any spares which is on order. > You don't expect something to fail inside a month or so of getting it. > Oh well, immediate panic over though my boss isn't going to be happy on > Monday. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve :) I've taken to hitting my disks for a few hours with either the IBM/hitachi disk-fitness test or seatools before deploying them. I have a dedicated box with a hot-swap sata bare-drive dock for doing it. I need to get a few more to parallelize my tests. I typically find 1 a month that fails the test quickly and I just RMA it. -Josh -- -------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Malone Systems Administrator ([email protected]) NRAO Charlottesville 434-296-0263 www.cv.nrao.edu 434-249-5699 (mobile) BOFH excuse #360: Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
