On 04/27/2017 11:35 PM, Ram Ramesh wrote: > Experts, > > I ordered a couple of 6TB drives from goHarddrive that claimed to be NAS > suitable, but SMART shows that they do not support > scterc. I want to replace two of my 3TB drives with these in mdadm > raid6. I can get a replacement or return, but want to avoid the hassle, > if I am not seious danger. Depends on "serious". I would return for exchange with proper NAS drives. And report the vendor for false advertising. > I do run tler.sh that sets 180s timeout for drives that do not have > scterc from /etc/rc.local. Am I putting my data in serious danger? I > only have videos and tv recordings in this md which can be replaced with > significant effort (about 12TB of movies and tv shows will take some > time to copy from my DVDs/BDs) The 180-second timeout is a band-aid, not a solution. Keep in mind that your array will appear to be frozen for up to three minutes any time you have a URE. That will have application side-effects and especially consequences from impatient users. Phil -- 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
