Re: Hard drive reliability
Ah forgot that some drives actually printed the number of sectors on the label... doh!
Yeah it's a FYPS so that's why it's slow. Alas it's got too many bad sectors to be a 2TB drive anymore.... now using about 1.7TB which so far, so good, no more failures for now. Using it as a rsync backup disk for ... my WD Green drive ...
Was using my RAID array for backup for the WD Green drive, but now I can use it for something else...
I wonder if I should try to set up another RAID5 with this and two other 2TB disks... Basically RAID5 the known good sections of the disk, and make a RAID1 of the two good disks where the third disk is known bad... Maximizes the use of the good sections of all disks?
Ah forgot that some drives actually printed the number of sectors on the label... doh!
Yeah it's a FYPS so that's why it's slow. Alas it's got too many bad sectors to be a 2TB drive anymore.... now using about 1.7TB which so far, so good, no more failures for now. Using it as a rsync backup disk for ... my WD Green drive ...
Was using my RAID array for backup for the WD Green drive, but now I can use it for something else...
I wonder if I should try to set up another RAID5 with this and two other 2TB disks... Basically RAID5 the known good sections of the disk, and make a RAID1 of the two good disks where the third disk is known bad... Maximizes the use of the good sections of all disks?
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