From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Issue removing failed drive and re adding on raid 6 Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 16:58:35 -0600 Message-ID: <1769278.0JzAUmkQ4M@balsa> References: Reply-To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca 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: Justin Stephenson , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sat 04 Jul 2015 04:38:18 PM you wrote: > >>6.00: ATA-8: ST3000DM001-9YN166, CC4H, max UDMA/133 > >> > >> ata6.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA > >> ata7.00: ATA-9: ST3000DM001-1CH166, CC27, max UDMA/133 > >> ata7.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA > >> ata8.00: ATA-9: ST3000DM001-1CH166, CC27, max UDMA/133 > >> ata8.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA > >> ata5.00: ATA-9: ST3000DM001-1CH166, CC27, max UDMA/133 > >> ata5.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA > >> ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 > >> ata4.00: ATA-9: ST3000DM001-1CH166, CC27, max UDMA/133 > >> ata4.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA > > > >OWWWWW OWWWWWW OWWWWW > > > >Are these 3TB Seagate Barracudas? (Same as mine). You DO NOT want to be > >running raid 5 or 6 on these things !!!! They're desktop drives not > >meant for raid. > > > >They do not support ERC. *One* *soft* failure on these and you run a > >good chance of trashing your array !!!! > > > >Make sure you've got your raid timeout increased - there's plenty of > >threads about how to do it - otherwise one disk hiccup for any reason > >is > >likely to cause a cascade of failures !!!! > > > >You need to upgrade them to Western Digital Reds or similar asap. > > > >Cheers, > >Wol > > Hi Wol, > > Yes, these are the 3GB Seagates. They have been running 24/7 for about 3 > years now. I lose a drive occasionally, replace and rebuild. I will > consider the REDs for the next time I do an upgrade - I imagin I would > have to replace all 7 drives at once. How about the Seagate NAS HDDs? I've just been replacing my desktop drives (all seagates, 1, 2 and 3 TB) as they fail. I've got 5 WD REDs now, in two separate arrays. I think 2 2TB REDs (out of 7 drives total) in my main NAS raid5 array (If I had room for one more drive, I'd make it a raid6), and 3 3TB REDS (out of 6 main drives, one hot spare, and one cold spare) in my backup raid6 array. Yeah, I've become paranoid enough that I have a full backup of the main NAS array now. I actually had to use it recently, due to a really stupid mistake I'd rather not talk about that wiped the filesystem ;D probably half of the array "failures" I've had were pebkac, so having a full backup copy is incredibly important for me. The backup array also stores backups of my /important/ rsnapshot backups of my machine configs, documents, and other important things. > I will look at the the raid timeout. Thank-you for the tip. > > - Justin > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@fjellstrom.ca