>Having been on the receiving end of similar advice, it is a frustrating >situation to be in, since you have (and will likely continue to have) the >hardware in production, without much option for replacement. >When we had systems like this, we had a lot of success being aggressive in >swapping out disks that were showing signs of going bad, even before >critical failures occurred. Also looking at SMART statistics, and >aggressively replacing those as well.
<snip> >Aggressively replace devices implicated by these, and hope for the best. >The best may or may not be what you're hoping for, but may be livable; it >was for us. Also bear in mind it's entirely possible to mix SAS and SATA drives in the same enclosure and even the same vdev-- so as you're aggressively replacing SATA drives replace them with SAS drives and your system will become less brittle. Assuming you're using enterprise SATA drives, their SAS siblings are not much more expensive (often about $20 difference) and the reliability gains will be significant. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
