Hey Dan, Thanks for the reply.
Yes, I'd forgotten that it's often the heads that degrade -- something like lubricant buildup, IIRC. As well as SMART data, which I must admit to never looking at, presumably scrub errors are also a good indication of looming trouble due to head problems etc? As I've seen zero read/write/checksum errors after regular scrubs over 2 years, hopefully this is a reasonably good sign of r/w head health. Good to see you're already using a backup solution I have envisaged using. It seems to make sense: making use of old kit for backups to help preserve ROI on drive purchases -- even, no especially, for home users. Cheers, Simon http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
