Hi all, Now my RAID is back thanks to all your precious advices, I want it to be as reliable as possible, knowing that I own "ordinary" hadrware : - standard PC (Atom based) - standard hard drives (some WD Red, but also Green, and Seagate without ERC capabilities) - standard need : NAS service, which aims at reliabily serve files for the whole local network (Gigabit). So, here is my current setup : - The RAID contains a spare disk - I set timeouts to 30" at every boot - The default SCT ERC value is 7" on my two Red disks - I cron a check every week What other advice could be done *before* the failure happens ? Thanks to all, gUI -- Pour la santé de votre ordinateur, préférez les logiciels libres. Lire son mail : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/thunderbird/ Browser le web : http://www.mozilla-europe.org/fr/products/firefox/ Suite bureautique : http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ -- 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