On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Jesper Krogh wrote:
>
> Are you replacing the drives with new once, or just secure-erase and
> back in?
> What kind of numbers are you drawing out of smartmontools in usage
> figures?
> (Also seeing some write-stalls here, on 24 Raid50 volumes of x25m's,
> and
> have been planning to cycle drives for quite some time, without
> actually
> getting to it.
>
we have some new drives that we are going to use initially, but
eventually it'll be a secure-erase'd one we replace it with (which
should perform identical to a new one)
What enclosure & controller are you using on the 24 disk beast?
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