> One of these drives had a faulty block which the drive had not been able to automatically relocate. Just curious, what's the reallocated sector count for the drive? And how many bad sectors do you feel comfortable with? I used to live with drives with a low reallocated sector count, but I recently noticed a problem: when a drive develops a new bad sector it can cause one of two things to happen to a server: 1) if the drive is part of a 3ware raid5 array, it is dropped by the controller, causing a degraded array. 2) if the drive is connected directly to the motherboard's onboard sata ports, it causes the system to hang for a period of time. Completely unresponsive. So now I change the drive if a drive's reallocated sector count is greater than zero. By the way, I hear the WD green drives spin down after a period of time with no access. Is this a problem for you? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
