Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:33:59 -0800 wes dijo: >> Argh, the link gives me the Atlanta error. >I agree that this probably won't help you, but I can at least offer the >correct link: > >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/hdparm Thanks for the correct link. Power management is probably not the iss

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread Ben Koenig
You should really troubleshoot before jumping to the conclusion that your RAID system is the point of failure. I work for a company that sells RAID0/1 enclosures similar to what you have, and they reset themselves whenever they are connected to the computer. So if for some reason your USB connnecti

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread wes
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:15 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:10:08 -0800 > John Jason Jordan dijo: > > >I don't know if it is going into powersave mode. I am off to see your > >link. > > Argh, the link gives me the Atlanta error. > > I agree that this probably won't help you

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:10:08 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I don't know if it is going into powersave mode. I am off to see your >link. Argh, the link gives me the Atlanta error. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailma

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:59:10 -0500 tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com dijo: >Tom,I'd imagine that John is contempt with the risk - he is using Raid >0 (striping on the array) - so any kind of failure will cost him data. >I'd imagine is that the backup is his safety net. Exactly correct. I have a lot of

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 16:20:59 -0800 tom dijo: >Really would not recommend using hardware raid. There are a lot of >things you have to ask yourself, like what happens if the raid >controller dies. Most of the time you have to get the exact same make >and model to get your data back with hardware ra

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread Thomas Groman
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:59:10 -0500 tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: > Tom,I'd imagine that John is contempt with the risk - he is using > Raid 0 (striping on the array) - so any kind of failure will cost him > data. I'd imagine is that the backup is his safety net. fair enough, still would not

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
Tom,I'd imagine that John is contempt with the risk - he is using Raid 0 (striping on the array) - so any kind of failure will cost him data. I'd imagine is that the backup is his safety net. Jon,Is your array simply going to powersafe mode?Can you try to diagnose it little with the bag of tricks

Re: [PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread tom
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 15:18:42 -0800 John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have a 2-bay Mediasonic enclosure with two WD red drives in Raid 0, > one 6TB, about 4 years old, and the other 8TB, about three years old. > The enclosure has a USB3 jack and an eSata jack. I use the USB3 jack, > but at one time I u

[PLUG] Fed up with drive constantly refreshing

2019-11-10 Thread John Jason Jordan
I have a 2-bay Mediasonic enclosure with two WD red drives in Raid 0, one 6TB, about 4 years old, and the other 8TB, about three years old. The enclosure has a USB3 jack and an eSata jack. I use the USB3 jack, but at one time I used the eSata connector and performance was the same. The drives are f