From: Patrik Jonsson <patrik@ucolick.org>
To: Benjamin Schieder <blindcoder@scavenger.homeip.net>
Cc: Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Care and feeding of RAID?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:56:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FDAC36.8040407@ucolick.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060905131454.GA28548@scavenger.homeip.net>
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On 05.09.2006 08:48:44, Paul Waldo wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions :-)
>>
>> Here is what I currently do:
>> - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine
>> - run smartd tests (short once a day, long once a week)
>> - check the raid for bad blocks every week
>>
>> What else can I do make sure the array keeps humming? Thanks in advance!
>>
Make sure the drives are adequately cooled. I use this nifty utility to
look at my drive temps:
http://martybugs.net/linux/hddtemp.cgi
mtbf seems to have an exponential dependence on temperature, so it pays
off to keep temp down. Exactly what temp you consider safe is
individual, but my drives only occasionally go above 40C.
cheers,
/Patrik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-05 12:48 Care and feeding of RAID? Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 13:14 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 16:56 ` Patrik Jonsson [this message]
2006-09-05 17:04 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 13:19 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 15:03 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 15:41 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-05 18:29 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 20:57 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06 7:12 ` Benjamin Schieder
2006-09-06 18:49 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-10 7:36 ` Benjamin Schieder
[not found] ` <44FDF08D.8000504@maine.edu>
2006-09-06 7:16 ` Luca Berra
2006-09-06 7:33 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-09-05 16:23 ` Mike Hardy
2006-09-05 17:02 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-05 17:46 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-06 0:04 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-06 7:41 ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2006-09-09 15:56 ` Nix
2006-09-05 17:09 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-05 20:17 ` Richard Scobie
2006-09-05 17:57 ` Rev. Jeffrey Paul
2006-09-05 18:35 ` Steve Cousins
2006-09-05 17:39 ` Paul Waldo
2006-09-09 15:58 ` Nix
2006-09-10 5:23 ` dean gaudet
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