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From: Redeeman <redeeman@metanurb.dk>
To: Nifty Fedora Mitch <niftyfedora@niftyegg.com>
Cc: "MOgWai46[Saurceful of Secrets]" <street41@gmail.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Western Digital RE3
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:17:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243430246.5740.80.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090527012441.GA3506@tosh2egg.wr.niftyegg.com>

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:24 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:17:34PM +0200, MOgWai46[Saurceful of Secrets] wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I would replace two Western Digital Velociraptor 300 GB 10K Rpm that
> > in the latest five month gave me a lot problems. Periodically i must
> > re-sync the linux raid 1 array because one of the two Velociraptor
> > stop to work. Someone have an experience with the Western Digital Raid
> > Edition 3 on a machine with linux software Raid 1?
>  
> Do inspect the drive and drive logs with WD diagnostic software.
> 
> Do inspect the hardware... cables, connectors etc....
> 
> Is it always the same disk that is triggering an error?
> Is the drive firmware up to date?
> 
> Software RAID 1 does not place any strange load on a drive the way
> other RAID models might so unless the drive is well out of warranty 
> look for the obvious....

He is not the first person to have serious problems with the
velociraptors, so they are probably not too good to use for raid.

> 
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-25 14:17 Western Digital RE3 MOgWai46[Saurceful of Secrets]
2009-05-25 19:20 ` Richard Scobie
2009-05-26  7:41   ` Henry, Andrew
2009-05-27 23:29     ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-28  6:17       ` Henry, Andrew
2009-05-28 13:24         ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-28 13:29           ` Bill Davidsen
2009-05-25 21:32 ` Redeeman
2009-05-27  1:24 ` Nifty Fedora Mitch
2009-05-27 13:17   ` Redeeman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-27 15:15 russ

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