On 8/11/06, dean gaudet <dean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, David Rees wrote: > On 8/10/06, dean gaudet <dean@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > - set up smartd to run long self tests once a month. (stagger it every > > few days so that your disks aren't doing self-tests at the same time) > > I personally prefer to do a long self-test once a week, a month seems > like a lot of time for something to go wrong. unfortunately i found some drives (seagate 400 pata) had a rather negative effect on performance while doing self-test.
Interesting that you noted negative performance, but I typically schedule the tests for off-hours anyway where performance isn't critical. How much of a performance hit did you notice? -Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
