Most manufacturers give you a 1 or 3 year warranty. I must assume this
indicates how long they think the drive will last. Seagate gives you 5
years. I use Seagate but have not had to return a drive in many years.
I have 4 of these:
Seagate "Barracuda 7200.10" 320 GB / 16 MB /?/ SATA
"Patrick Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement
> RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this?
I have done, as a trial. USB disk support in recent 2.6 based
distributions was quite stable and reliable, and I had no signifi
> Patrick Hoover wrote:
>> Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement
>> RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this?
>
> Sounds like a very good stress test for MD.
>
> I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually
> happens in the IDE layer.
>
> > What's the remaining third?
> > I fumbled it into rc.S and rc.6, reason why I ask is that array degraded
> > about 6 times in the few months I run it and I can't figure why. Only
> > thing I know is that it degrades somewhere in the reboot process, so I
> > suspect it might not properly shutdow
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 19:26 schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> > Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > >Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware?
> > >Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a
> > > little rawish, barely more th
Am Samstag, 16. September 2006 19:26 schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> Dexter Filmore wrote:
> >Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware?
> >Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a
> > little rawish, barely more than mdadm --assemble/--stop.
>
> I'm pretty much off Sl
} -Original Message-
} From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid-
} [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Davidsen
} Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:29 AM
} To: Tuomas Leikola
} Cc: Bodo Thiesen; Linux RAID
} Subject: Re: proactive-raid-disk-replacement
}
} Tuomas Leikola wrote:
}
Dexter Filmore wrote:
Is anyone here who runs a soft raid on Slackware?
Out of the box there are no raid scripts, the ones I made myself seem a little
rawish, barely more than mdadm --assemble/--stop.
I'm pretty much off Slack now, but I have run, the scripts you describe
are about 2/3 of
Molle Bestefich wrote:
I'm looking for new harddrives.
This is my experience so far.
SATA cables:
=
I have zero good experiences with any SATA cables.
They've all been crap so far.
3.5" ATA harddrives buyable where I live:
==
(All drives
At 15:16 +0200 9/16/2006, Molle Bestefich wrote:
A.) Does anyone have experience with returning Hitachi, Seagate or
WD drives to the manufacturer? Do they have manufacturer warranty at
all? How much/little trouble did you have with Hitachi, Seagate or WD?
A few years ago (but after IBM sold th
Steve Cousins wrote:
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
Steve,
The recent "Messed up creating new array..." thread has someone who
started by using the whole drives but she now wants to use
partitions because the array is not starting automatically on boot
(I think that was the symptom). I'm guess
Tuomas Leikola wrote:
On 9/10/06, Bodo Thiesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, we need a way, to feedback the redundancy from the raid5 to the
raid1.
Sounds awfully complicated to me. Perhaps this is how it internally
works, but my 2 cents go to the option to gracefully remove a device
(mig
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
Kuca , Thank you for posting this snippet .
Neil , Might changing ,
can be given as max which means to choose the largest
size that
To
can be given as 'max' which means to choose the largest
size that
help tho
I'm looking for new harddrives.
This is my experience so far.
SATA cables:
=
I have zero good experiences with any SATA cables.
They've all been crap so far.
3.5" ATA harddrives buyable where I live:
==
(All drives are 7200rpm, for some re
Patrick Hoover wrote:
Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement
RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this?
Sounds like a very good stress test for MD.
I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually
happens in the IDE layer.
If using USB di
> His advice
> was valid.
Maybe valid but not helping with my problem since the problem is/was,
that /dev/md0 didn't exist at all. mdadm -C won't create device nodes.
But I figured the workaround meanwhile, so it doesn't matter anymore.
(In case someone wanna know: mknod in /lib/udev/devices do
16 matches
Mail list logo