On Nov 22, 2013 7:42 PM, "Kelly Clowers" <kelly.clow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Jon N <jdnandr...@gmail.com> wrote: > <snip> > > > > > Which leads to my questions. If the NAS drive is installed in a > > desktop computer running Debian Linux what is the result of this? > > Will this command just be ignored? Will the shorter time the drive > > spends trying to perform whatever operation it's having a problem with > > cause a problem if the OS does not have a way of dealing with this? > > How else will will this affect my system? > > > > In my online searches I have seen many results dealing with using > > desktop drives in NAS's, but nothing (so far) that addresses the issue > > the other way around. So any light you can shed on this will be > > gratefully appreciated. > > > > Both mdadm and a real HW RAID controller will kick > a drive out of the array if it takes too long to > respond. Mdadm is by default set higher than HW > RAID, though. Either way, it just means less chance > of a false positive drive failure.
It won't be in a RAID, I was just thinking of using it as a regular hdd. Since there won't be RAID controller, and as far as I know Mdadm won't be running (does it run if I don't set up a RAID?) I was wondering how it, or if, it would affect the system. Thanks, Jon