[Tfug] And another one down

[Timothy D. Lenz]

It's 4 drives  in paired mirrors. And it's those Seagate 500Gb drives. 
I've lost track of how many times one of them as gone bad. Same thing 
each time, a bit of noise like drive access and then the array is 
degraded. Sometimes it takes awhile for maadam to figure it out. several 
times it showed on reboot with a strange messed up failed boot and on 
the second try it comes up. C/D is only a data array, so it won't even 
effect any reboot.

I do have other stuff on there, a TS server, and VDR, web server for 
when I need to share a file with someone, etc.. And I don't want to have 
to go through setting any of that up again. So far mirroring has come 
through every time. Just have to figure out the steps each time to swap 
the drive out and get the array back up.

I was saving up to buy a second ship in the new game Star Citizen. The 
game is in pre alpha but the money goes to developement of the game and 
because I am a veteran backer having got the base game before the cut 
off for veteran status, If i get the ship before nov 26, it comes with 
in game life time insurance which isn't much, just one less thing to 
spend in game credits on. Everything sold now except LTI ships will be 
buyable in game with in game money. Purely F2P. But looks like I'll be 
getting a drive instead. If this drive is out of warranty, I'll be 
looking at getting a WD Red drive to replace it.

On 9/7/2013 12:38 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
> On 9/7/2013 12:21 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>> Awhile back I was dealing with another hard drive failure on my vdr
>> system. Seagate drives. Welllll. Yesterday I was noticing a sound coming
>> from the computers that sounded like drives being accessed but no lights
>> in. Hearing it this morning too and thought maybe a fan was going out.
>> But then I check my mail:
>>
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>>
>>     host name: x64VDR
>>    DNS domain: tdl
>>    NIS domain: (none)
>>
>> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>>
>> Device: /dev/sdc, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>
> You expect some number of sectors to "go bad" over time.
> But, the drive should reprovision a new sector to replace
> the "failed" sector ("Grown Defect List") -- preferably before
> it can't reliably recover the *data* from that sector!
>
> It's only when this starts to happen at an increased
> frequency or at a large cumulative rate that you have to
> worry about the drive being toast.  (or, on its *way* to
> being toast!)
>
> Presumably (?), for a DVR, there's nothing particularly
> "precious" about the data in that sector (if there had been,
> the question becomes:  "Why didn't you have it backed up?")
>
> Do you see a performance problem, otherwise?
>
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