[mythtv-users] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009

[John Drescher]

> They also found that average utilization doesn't correlate with drive
> failures unless the drive is very new (< 6 months) or very old (> 5 years).
> Another interesting tidbit is that only about half of the drives that failed
> had warnings from failed SMART tests.
>
I have never had SMART warn me that a drive was going bad. And I have
had 20+ disk failures out of around 200 in the last 12 years at work.


John