On 06/21/2011 07:19 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
3ware controllers offer SMART pass-through, and smartctl supports it. I'm sure there's something similar for Areca controllers.
Depends on the model, drives, and how you access the management interface. For both manufacturers actually. Check out http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.html for example. There I talk about problems with a specific Areca controller, as well as noting in a comment at the end that there are limitations with 3ware supporting not supporting SMART reports against SAS drives.
Part of the whole evaluation chain for new server hardware, especially for SSD, needs to be a look at what SMART data you can get. Yeb, I'd be curious to get more details about what you've been seeing here if you can share it. You have more different models around than I have access to, especially the OCZ ones which I can't get my clients to consider still. (Their concerns about compatibility and support from a relatively small vendor are not completely unfounded)
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