From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: recovering failed raid5 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:26:26 +0500 Message-ID: <20161027212626.0c9318ff@natsu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Shenkin Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:06:14 +0100 Alexander Shenkin wrote: > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) > Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 That's the horror drive of doom with 30% failure rates within a couple of years https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ It's even got it's own Wikipedia article by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 This Russian article dissects what actually causes the failures -- poor dust-proofing of the platters area: https://habrahabr.ru/post/251941/ I hope you didn't seriously go out and buy one more of that same model to replace the failed one. -- With respect, Roman