On Sun, September 7, 2014 8:55 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: >> >> I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more >> than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once >> had one of them fried (my clumsiness most likely), which then just >> didn't >> come up (3ware just replaced card without a question asked). Could yours >> be _slightly_ fried? > > The first card could have been slightly fried; it came back up after a > reboot, and would kernel panic again within a few days. Since I had > what I thought was a good second card I never bothered to test the first > one thoroughly. After the second card ate the array I bailed on the old > cards completely; had the 9650 been easy to obtain I would have, but it > was pretty much EOL by then. > > The 9650 that died last month refused to be recognized on cold boot, so I > think it's totally gone. It's old enough that it's not worth my time > trying to figure out whether it's revivable. > Indeed, lucky me. As of this moment I have 6 of 9650 in production boxes. For at least 6 years. During which time none of them ever failed on me (including any trouble with arrays). Knocking on wood. I must say though that I do prefer the most reliable drives. And I always have arrays checked at least once a week through 3ware scheduler (this causes walk through the whole surface of each of drives, thus ensuring bad blocks if any do not stay undiscovered...). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++