From: Ram Ramesh <rramesh2400@gmail.com>
To: Linux Raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: When do you replace old hard drives in a raid6?
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 14:49:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56DB465E.9010703@gmail.com> (raw)
I am curious if people actually replace hard drives periodically because
they are old or out of warranty. My 5 device raid6 has several older
drives (3/5 are 3+ years old and out of warranty) They seem fine with
SMART and raid scrubs. However, it makes me wonder when they will die.
What is the best policy in such situations? More importantly, do people
wait for disks to die and then replace or have some ad hoc schedule of
replacing (like every 6mo replace oldest) to keep things safe?
Regards
Ramesh
next reply other threads:[~2016-03-05 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-05 20:49 Ram Ramesh [this message]
2016-03-07 0:29 ` When do you replace old hard drives in a raid6? Phil Turmel
2016-03-07 0:52 ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-07 2:31 ` Weedy
2016-03-07 4:40 ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-07 5:18 ` Phil Turmel
2016-03-09 0:11 ` Ram Ramesh
2016-03-09 2:49 ` John Stoffel
2016-03-09 6:43 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2016-03-09 6:59 ` Roman Mamedov
2016-03-07 6:59 ` Carsten Aulbert
2016-03-08 22:01 ` Wols Lists
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