On 12/03/2014 03:24 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > OTOH, I had a perfectly good drive get kicked out of my RAID-1 > array a fewyears ago just because, well, I guess I could say > "it felt like it". I've seen that too several times on my home "server". Once in a while (usually on one of the first days I'm on vacation) one of the drives stops responding. A shutdown and cold restart is necessary to bring the drive alive again, just a reboot won't fix it. After this, I rebuild the RAID partitions and all is OK. smartctl shows no sign of problems with the drive, so I suspect a controller problem. This is on a desktop machine used as a server. I guess this explains why we have server grade hardware :-) Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, mk at lemo.dk http://www.lemo.dk