August 30, 200916 yr Hi, I have a Seagate 1.5TB which is showing ever increasing sector errors (increased from 1,000 to 5,000 in past few days) and based on my experience with the seaget 1.5TB its a matter of if not when it will die. This is my 3rd 1.5TB seagate which has gone belly up this year (2 of them came with the new CC1H firmware - and one was upgraded from the SD15 firmware). I am one very unhappy seagate customer, am now back to using WD as the 1.5TB seagates are absolute junk in my experience. One of the drives completely died without warning and stupid me restored the array after it died so I lost 1.5TB of data (lucky it was DVD rips that I own so just waste of my time). anyone had bad experiences with the WD 2TB jobbies? Enough of the rant I guess i have two options: 1) Replace the drive and let the parity rebuild the information 2) Move the data from the dodgy drive across to a spare (i have a 2TB spare at moment) - but will this affect the shares? I think option 2 would be faster but don't know the effect it has on the array. Advice appreciated.
August 31, 200916 yr I think the best bet is to get a new drive in there ASAP and rebuild. If you copy the data off the drive and then just remove the drive you will have to do a RESTORE which will leave the array unprotected until the parity is calculated. There is a way around this but it's somewhat cumbersome. If you don't have a spare then copying the data off the drive to temporarily back it up is a good idea. Peter
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