Gil said the following on 21/10/2005 17:48:
The partial media failure problem described here is exactly why it's important to run smartmontools in combination with your RAID array of any level. By running regular checks of the disk surface you can know well ahead of time that you're going to have trouble. in practice this more than mitigates the risk of partial media failure. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
<sigh> I wish the code to enable SMART for SATA drives would make it into mainstream *real* soon now.
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