On 03/08/18 07:53, jonathan.p.milton@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Looks like my third drive (/dev/sdd) has completely died. Not even > showing up in /dev following a reboot. I'll have to investigate and see > if this is just a connector issue or the drive really is dead. Very > disappointing if it is given the POH is ~2.5 years and smartctl is > reporting passes on all tests. Sounds like the very first thing you should do is ddrescue all your disks, using a different machine! You might have a dodgy SATA interface :-( Have you got loads of free space? Or should you take this as a good moment to move on to larger drives? 3 and 4GB drives aren't that expensive. Cheers, Wol -- 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