Re: RAID 1, SMART error, hot spare
Hello,
Gregory Seidman a écrit :
> I have two eSATA drives in a RAID 1, and smartd has started reporting
> errors on it:
>
> Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 9 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
> Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 9 Offline uncorrectable sectors
>
> The first message, on June 11, was 6 sectors. I ordered a new HD and
> enclosure that day. It went up to 8 sectors on June 12. By June 14 I had
> installed the new HD and added it to the RAID as a hot spare. On June 28 it
> went up to 9 sectors.
>
> Given that I have the hot spare in place, do I need to do anything? Should
> I fail /dev/sdb with mdadm preemptively?
Yes.
> Or just wait until it fails on its own?
It has already failed. At least three times. Do you prefer to wait until
the other disk fails too ?
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