hi ya
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Robert James Kaes wrote:
> Hi,
> Does any one have any experience using S.M.A.R.T. (via smartmontools)
> to monitor their hard drives in a software RAID configuration? It
> seems to me that using SMART would be a great way to let you know that
> one of the drives was about to die, but I don't know if the
> smartmontools package will work correctly when the RAID system is in
> production.
i "claim" that one should just buy better drives ...
than to monitor for it to fail
( buy it brand new from the local pc store )
( vs letting the ups/fedex gorillas toss it onto the shelf/floor
( during transport/deliveries
- different disks have different degree of success
in its machines/environment
- i always add 1 fan per 7200rpm disk for cooling that puppy...
way better than letting that disks run hot
spend $3-$10now to save 100GB of data in 6months/years
haven't had 7200rpm disks go bad except for those bad
"ibm deathstars" ( deskstar ) made in thailand or hungry
- i use seagate, maxtor, wd ... 10GB - 300GBs...
c ya
alvin
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