On 3/14/06, Reuben D. Budiardja <techlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 08:49, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 08:21 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > <snip> > > > I am hoping for comments, etc. Thank you in advance. > > > > Have you monitored the temperature of the system at all times? Heat can > > play a major roll in causing drives and other hardware to fail long > > before it should. Good air flow around the system/drives is critical. > > I have not. Any recommended tools , methods ? Thank you. Check the bios it should have temperature and other power rates...not sure of the version.. > > > And make sure you have a good UPS system connected. Power fluctuations > > can cause all kinds of havoc. > > It's connected to UPS with proper shutdown in the event of power outage. > > > > > Also note that using RAID by itself does not replace the need for > > backups. RAID protects against hardware failure. And depending on the > > value of the data it is usually recommended to run RAID with a hot spare > > drive so multiple drive failures won't bring the system down. I am not > > sure if the card you are using allows you to run a hot spare or not. > > The machine is a backup machine. It's main job is to backup data from other > machines, so if I have to have a backup for the backup ... well I am going to > have hard time to justify that :). Yes, I should have had a hot spare ready, > but resource is not unlimited so I did not have hot spare. The data lost were > non-critical (I am not loosing sleep), but this just indicates there is > something wrong with the system and it's getting ridiculous to keep replacing > drives with its warranty. > > > And make sure you have something in place that notifies you that there > > is a problem. > > Yes, email notification is in place by default (from mdadm and smartd). > > Thank you for respond. > > RDB > -- > Reuben D. Budiardja > Dept. Physics and Astronomy > University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
