[WLUG] In regard to our conversation about Seagate Drives & Failures

[Dan Pritts]

damn, i have 3 of that model drive in service on my home server.  Time for some proactive replacement.

tangentially - if you are not doing regular “scrubs” of your raids, you should - it will help you identify bad drives before they fail. 

for linux software raid:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#Scrubbing <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#Scrubbing>

danno


> On Apr 17, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Tom Lawrence <me at thomaslawrence.com> wrote:
> 
> Seagate 3TB HDD Failure Rates: 2.7% year 1, 5.4% year 2 and 47.2% year 3 
> 
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