On 2024-01-09 at 11:12, Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-09, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> My default plan is to identify an appropriate model and buy a pair >> of replacement drives, but not install them yet; buy another two >> drives every six months, until I have a full replacement set; and >> start failing drives out of the RAID array and installing >> replacements as soon as one either fails, or looks like it's >> imminently about to fail. But if the mass notification mails >> indicate that all eight are nearing failure, that might not be >> enough - and if they don't indicate any likelihood of failure this >> year, then buying replacement drives yet might be premature. > > Isn't it advised not to use the drives in this case, or to unmount > them, or to avoid all reads and writes (or however it should be > termed, as we all agree your symptoms mean trouble) in order to avoid > exacerabating the upcoming failure? Or does this go without saying? It probably is, but I don't have an alternative, since this is my daily-driver computer and I can't afford to go without one in the interim. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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