From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wols Lists Subject: Re: recovering failed raid5 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:26:11 +0000 Message-ID: <581770A3.7020201@youngman.org.uk> References: <20161027160400.GA21042@metamorpher.de> <715b259f-1e56-9606-edc4-3e5c4d57744b@shenkin.org> <20161028133626.GA27462@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alexander Shenkin , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Klauer , rm@romanrm.net, robin@robinhill.me.uk List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 31/10/16 10:44, Alexander Shenkin wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their input. I need to get a new, non-horrible > 3TB drive to ddrescue to. The question: can I get a different 3TB drive > (e.g. Toshiba P300 3TB, > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-P300-7200RPM-SATA-Drive/dp/B0151KM6F0), > or are sizes of 3TB slightly different enough for that to cause me > headaches when adding it back into the array? If the latter is the > case, then perhaps I need to aim for a 4TB drive replacement... Can't speak for that drive, but I recently got myself a laptop 2TB Toshiba drive. Was pleasantly surprised to discover it supported SCT/ERC (and they make a 3TB 2.5" drive too, just don't try sticking it in a laptop as it won't fit :-) Cheers, Wol