> Actually I don't think this is right. Hardware RAID does crc on the data, > so corruption is almost impossible, the RAID would drop the bad drive off if > it started returning errors. Of course this is moo as joey says if he is > doing soft RAID. So the question is...hard or soft?
You keep worying about the wrong type of errors. RAID is from an age where drive MTBFs were 2000 hours. Today MTBFs are at 300,000 hours. Today the kinds of errors we see the most are "soft" errors. RAID error checking will not see them, it will pass them on unfixed, but they will destroy your data just the same. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
