Dear Mr. Kabelac, * I have had two (real!) cases which three mechanical harddisks, that have had defective sectors (within warranty time!), not just announced as defective, but really unreadable. 1st case: Two ecolocical, energy saving samsung disks, that have both got unreadable sectors, happyly mutually not on the same location, connected as raid1: All data could be read and saved. 2nd case: An usb-disk that had got unreadable sectors with a 'pseudo-raid' on it: All data could be read and saved. * Experimental case: Test of 'pseudo-raid' on a dvd, the dvd was scratched and could partially not be read: The pseudo raid could be read without any problem ( * ok. if the metadata on the dvd, which is responsible to have access to the dvd at all, is scratched, you loose everything. * about a read-only!-dvd with 'raid' on it ...: I use another 'strange' construct with dm-target dm-snapshot to protect the dvd from writing to. ). * I have had at least two (real) cases of harddisks with each having a unreadable first sector (== the partition table): The laptops could neither been started, nor could the data.been accessed, After rewriting the partition table, the disks worked just long enough, to copy a complete image of them. (either the disk has a partiton at the 'usual' location, or you may search for the begin of the filesystem...) * Link (I don't want to attach and clutter your mail server with unneces- sary images) to: Defective disk in harddisk device. "http://www.thomas-r-bruecker.ch/favorites/io/disk/Defective_disk.jpg". (It begins mostly with defective sectors and ends in a crash.) * So, for me, it is a good idea, to protect myself from defective sectors. * 'Normal' raid(1): * notebooks with two harddisks in it ...? * travelling with a laptop and two usb-harddisks ...? Sincerely Thomas ============================================================================ On Tue, November 19, 2024 2:37 pm, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Dne 19. 11. 24 v 3:11 "Thomas Bruecker" napsal(a): >> ]...] > [...] > And while I can 'see' a small value in having the same data stored > multiple times on the same drive - the protection you get from this is > close to nothing > [...] > With prices of storage these days I'd simply recommend to simply use the > raid the way it's supposed to be used. > [...]