Like many of us I have accidentally used ‘fdisk’ to partition a drive that I had never intended to. Whether it be adding a new drive, repartitioning and formatting a USB device, or just trying to reload the operating system there has been more than one occasion where I have chosen the wrong drive and […]
Use Bad Block Frequency to Determine a RAID 5 Stale Drive
We have been discussing the love affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I explained how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact that the old and new data, as well as how long the drive […]
Determining a Stale Hard Drive in Most RAIDs
In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure that we do not have a stale hard drive in the array. Although I did not cover how one determines if in fact a stale hard drive exists, I will mention it now. […]
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