From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de (Jochen Kunz) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:14:24 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Irwin 285 In-Reply-To: <20100121204429.GH9956@bitmover.com> References: <48239d391001210407t7633e9d1p692be7de51ccb9dd@mail.gmail.com> <20100121181147.97ae525c.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> <20100121185917.GA25619@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121204829.672d59a7.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> <20100121195619.GE25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121195818.GF9956@bitmover.com> <20100121200034.GG25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121201125.GG9956@bitmover.com> <46b366131001211226v1a133901mefa41b3258a5b173@mail.gmail.com> <20100121204157.GI25687@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20100121204429.GH9956@bitmover.com> Message-ID: <20100122101424.50c0e716.jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:44:29 -0800 Larry McVoy wrote: > Disks are much higher volume and are forced to be reliable "enough". That "enough" is the critical point. Check the average read failure rate of SATA drives. It is 1 per 10^14 bits for my ST3500320AS. The drive has a capacity of 512 bytes/sect x 976773168 sectors. I.e. I will get at least one read error when I try to read the entire disk 25 times. If I build a RAID out of 5 of this drives I only need 5 reads through the RAID to get a read error and the RAID will degrate. > If you aren't backing up with a crc then you are doing it wrong. With a CRC you can detect bit rott. (Probably. Somthing like MD5 or SHA-1 is mch better then a CRC.) But you can't repair the defect data. So you want ECC... -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/ _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs