Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> I just logged in 
>> to do my Sysadmin checks and found 3 bloody disks have failed totally 
>> ruining my BackupPC filesystem.
> 
> The odds against that are overwhelming.  Power surge?  Are all three disks of
> the same age and lot?

Things like that aren't as unusual as you might think.  What often happens is 
that unused parts of some of the disks go bad and aren't noticed immediately - 
then when a used area on one does have a problem it tries to rebuild on a hot 
spare but in the process of building parity across all the sectors it hits the 
bad spots on the other drives.  Or, if it is really a controller problem it can 
affect several disks at once.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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