[CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

On May 28, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote:

> If you feel you must test the functionality of the ability of the  
> RAID1
> to recover from a failed drive, the power down, remove drive, boot,
> power down, replace drive, boot process will test the ability of the
> system to re-sync the drives.  A more rigorous test would be to  
> zero out
> the partition table of the removed drive, or to use a new blank  
> drive to
> test the recovery; however, what I think Karanbir meant by "silly" is
> that all these tests simply confirm that the RAID is working as
> designed.  If it doesn't, then you should have bought different  
> hardware
> to start with.

Thanks Phil for the clarification, felt like the light bulb suddenly  
turned on in my head. I should be more concerned at monitoring the  
health of the hard drives then.

dianne