> The only thing I have seen weird with SATA raid is in external arrays. > IDE can take a lot longer in terms of error correction than SCSI and > the HBA will not wait long before marking the drive bad (even though > it is not). I have to manage 8 16-drive arrays like this and haven't > lost any data, though be sure that if your HBA marks 2 drives bad > simultaneously you could be in for a 16+ hour rebuild on the array. > Needless to say, for critical data, these arrays are not the final > destination for that data.
Should have noted also, that the 3ware cards have what is called "auto-verify" and "media error scanning" that you can enable to prevent drives from being improperly marked as *bad*. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
