[ale] read after write verify?, data scrubbing procedures

[Derek Atkins]

"mike at trausch.us" <mike at trausch.us> writes:

> Oh, and in a RAID, keep the members down to less than 1 TB, unless 
> things have drastically changed in HDD manufacturing, the odds of 
> catastrophic failure go way up with size, and the last I remember 
> hearing, 720-1000 GB was about the far end of "maybe" in terms of RAID 
> use.  I've had good luck with 750 GB array members (5 of them, in a RAID 
> 6) myself.

I've been running with some 2TB drives and I haven't had any issues
yet, after running for 1-2 years.  (The RAID started with some 1TB
drives, but I expanded).

> 	--- Mike

-derek

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