David Greaves wrote: > Then RMA *this* Maxtor and hope to resync in a couple of weeks (well,
actually - these drives seem so damned unreliable I guess I'm going to *have* to buy a spare)
FYI these are 250Gb Maxtor SATA disks.
David,
I use the same drives; I've had a *terrible* failure rate with the them.
I bought 6 drives - 2 from separate vendors on eBay (d1, d2) plus 4 more from another vendor (d3-d6). d3 turned out to be faulty so I asked the vendor to replace it. He said I could, or I could RMA it direct with Maxtor. This I did as it meant I could get a replacement quicker.
However, when I provided the drive serial no. for the RMA it turned out to be stolen - as did the other 3 drives from the same vendor (d4-d6) so I returned all 4 to the vendor and got 4 more (d7-10) after first checking the serial nos to make sure they weren't stolen!
Anyway, I checked the drives when I got them with the Maxtor PowerMax utility - 3 out of the 4 were faulty (d7-d9). I RMAd all three back to Maxtor and got 3 more (d11-d13). So far (touch wood) all six are still working OK.
Let's look at a summary:
d1 OK d2 OK d3 Failed d4 Returned untested d5 Returned untested d6 Returned untested d7 Failed d8 Failed d9 Failed d10 OK d11 OK d12 OK d13 OK
So, of the 10 drives I tested, four failed - That's a 40% failure rate.
Needless to say I decided to configure my RAID5 array with a spare:
[root@dude geeklog]# mdadm --detail /dev/md5
/dev/md5:
Version : 00.90.01
Creation Time : Thu Jul 29 21:41:38 2004
Raid Level : raid5
Array Size : 974566400 (929.42 GiB 997.96 GB)
Device Size : 243641600 (232.35 GiB 249.49 GB)
Raid Devices : 5
Total Devices : 6
Preferred Minor : 5
Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Mon Nov 15 20:55:23 2004
State : clean
Active Devices : 5
Working Devices : 6
Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1 Layout : left-symmetric
Chunk Size : 128K UUID : a4bbcd09:5e178c5b:3bf8bd45:8c31d2a1
Events : 0.1716573 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 8 2 0 active sync /dev/sda2
1 8 18 1 active sync /dev/sdb2
2 8 34 2 active sync /dev/sdc2
3 8 50 3 active sync /dev/sdd2
4 8 66 4 active sync /dev/sde25 8 82 - spare /dev/sdf2
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