--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Tim Bostrom <tbostrom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>You should be aware that using external disks
> through USB means that
> >>SMART tools can't monitor your disks for bad
> sectors and read errors,
> >>thus if any occur you won't know till you start
> getting I/O errors --
> >>it would be almost too late by then.
>
> Yes, this is a major sticking point. I am doing
> backups of this USB
> RAID1 array offline, but I'd like to get SMART
> status. Long term I
> see this going into an eSATA enclosure. Just need to
> find reasonable
> card supporting port multipliers and a good port
> multiplier.
If you use an advanced format like ZFS (ZFS-FUSE) or BTRFS you get checksumming, which should help.
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