> When a disk encounters an error in a RAID1 set and is kicked out, I > almost always try reconstructing onto it. I usually try that, too, but I didn't want for the reconstruction to complete given it was well past midnight.
Also, when the other disc in that RAID set failed two weeks ago, I did try an in-place reconstruction. That succeeded, but only for the same disc to fail again seconds later. It then didn't come to life again. Given identical symtoms (ten-second SAS link loss, so probably a firmware crash), I wasn't confident for an in-place reconstruction to work on the second component.
