On Thu, 27 Oct 2016 16:06:14 +0100 Alexander Shenkin <al@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === > Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) > Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 That's the horror drive of doom with 30% failure rates within a couple of years https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/ It's even got it's own Wikipedia article by now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001 This Russian article dissects what actually causes the failures -- poor dust-proofing of the platters area: https://habrahabr.ru/post/251941/ I hope you didn't seriously go out and buy one more of that same model to replace the failed one. -- With respect, Roman -- 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