[TriLUG] Music Files (and a small rant)

[paul]

> The only thing I have seen weird with SATA raid is in external arrays.
> IDE can take a lot longer in terms of error correction than SCSI and
> the HBA will not wait long before marking the drive bad (even though
> it is not). I have to manage 8 16-drive arrays like this and haven't
> lost any data, though be sure that if your HBA marks 2 drives bad
> simultaneously you could be in for a 16+ hour rebuild on the array.
> Needless to say, for critical data, these arrays are not the final
> destination for that data.


Should have noted also, that the 3ware cards have what is called
"auto-verify" and "media error scanning" that you can enable to
prevent drives from being improperly marked as *bad*.