On 03/10/2016 10:35 AM, compdoc wrote: > You don't have to guess about failing hard drives. You only have to read the > SMART info from each of your drives. That will tell you.
That is not entirely true. "Desktop" drives will spend a lot of time trying to relocate data from failing sectors before they consider themselves failing. With enough sectors going bad at once you can have a drive without any SMART errors causing all sorts of problems from "stuck task" lock-ups to filesystem errors. One way you find those is run iostat during i/o load and see if any drives report 100% utilization or more with very high iowait times. (Of course there may be other reasons for high iowait and/or % utilization.) Or just buy TLER drives. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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