Hard drives hate me
Last week I finally got my ~terabyte storage finished!
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ar0s1d 677G 99G 571G 15% /raid5
It’s less than 1024GB thanks to drive manufacturers using dodgy calculations, and also it’s RAID5, so I lose a disk’s worth of space (250GB). Seem to be doing a reasonable job of filling it up though ;)
This morning, though, I was greeted with the this email:
This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
host name: yomi.jamesoff.net DNS domain: jamesoff.net NIS domain:
The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
Device: /dev/ad0, Self-Test Log error count increased from 0 to 1 `
Arrgh :argh:
At least that’s the system drive rather than one of the new ones, but now I’m going to have to buy a new system drive and prepare to migrate over to it. At least thanks to having plenty of space, I have full dump(1)s of the drive so even if it does die before I replace it I can recover fairly easily.
Jan
2007
18:28
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Jan
2007
14:45
I had basically the same thing happen to me when I added a 4-disk raid array, except that I had my data drive wibble and one of the ones in the new array :s
Thankfully it’s all been happy (touches wood) since I RMA’d that one and moved the old data drive to a machine which is less critical. It also pretends to be fine now, no matter how much I thrash/test/benchmark it…
Backup on the other hand… how are you going to back that lot up? I keep meaning to do something about backup of my ~840Gb raid set, but what can I do other than huge tape, DVD-R (ugh) or more drives?
Jan
2007
00:54
The plan is to not.
Nothing critical will go on there, and if it does die, I’ll be sad but I won’t have lot anything important.
The system (in fact, all my systems) get backed up onto a different set of disks running as a GEOM mirror.
If I could afford a backup solution that would fit that lot then I would, but I can’t, so I’ll just have to hope it doesn’t go too wrong ;)