On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:37 AM, bardo <ilbardo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Parted automatically warned me about an unoptimal sector alignment > when I tried to put the first partition at 0 (the first partition > should start at 2MB), but if you want to be extra-sure just check the > the '-a optimal' parameter. Great to hear that this has changed. :) > About the disk reliability I can't tell > much, but I already transferred some 100GB to it, and of course I had > the first RAID5 build, which took a few hours and ran through the > whole disk. Also, smartctl doesn't have anything bad to say. I run weekly SMART "long" tests on all my disks because, in my experience, that has been the best indication of impending disk failure. It performs a full surface scan, so on a 2TB disk this can take 6 hours (maybe more on green disks). Something like this in smartd.conf: /dev/sda -a -H -l error -l selftest -f -m marti@xxxxxxxxx -s L/../../3/11 checks for attribute changes and performs a long test every thursday (3) at 11 o'clock and emails me about problems. Regards, Marti
