Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/16/2010 10:47 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > raid sets really shouldn't be much bigger than about 8 drives, > anyways. rebuild times for a 12 drive raid6 would be astronomical. > You are ok up to here. Rebuild time for replacement of a failed drive scales by drive size, not raid set size, r

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/16/10 10:41 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Oh, I agree - and when price is no object, or if write performance is the price spread isn't that big of a deal. a 6-drive raid-6 gives you 4x space, while a 6 drive raid-10 gives you 3X.not that big of a deal. an 8-drive RAID-6 gives you 6X spa

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/16/2010 09:25 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > These days of cheap drives, I use raid10 almost exclusively. and if its > at all mission critical, I like to have 1-2 hotspares. if I was > deploying a new server, and its workload was at all database-centric, > I'd want to use use 2.5" SAS rather

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/16/10 8:31 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > In these days of multi-terabyte drives you should be looking at RAID6 > instead. The chances of a 'double failure' during degraded > operation/resync is too high to ignore. These days of cheap drives, I use raid10 almost exclusively. and if its at al

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 16, 2010 08:31:05 am Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 11/15/2010 10:41 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > > Thanks John, I appreciate it! Both are being replaced after a nearby 55 > > KV power line shorted to ground and blew a manhole cover 50' into the > > air, damaging a lot of equipment over he

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/15/2010 10:41 AM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Thanks John, I appreciate it! Both are being replaced after a nearby 55 > KV power line shorted to ground and blew a manhole cover 50' into the air, > damaging a lot of equipment over here, even those on UPS's. Nobody was > hurt, thank goodness. But

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-15 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/10/10 6:58 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I just got one of these today: >> >> Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = >> 0x0800 >> Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Me

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/10/10 6:58 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I just got one of these today: > > Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = > 0x0800 > Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error > Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: Add. Sens

[CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-10 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Hey everyone, I just got one of these today: Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x0800 Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: sda: Current: sense key: Medium Error Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Nov 10 16:07:54 stormy kernel: N