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Re:Don’t Be Afraid of RAID by number6 on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:15PM (#23293390)
This sounds to me like: "It was really one inch away from losing all the data"

You discovered the failing disk by chance; if chance hadn't been in your favour it would be the other way round and an other drive had failed on you.

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Re:Don’t Be Afraid of RAID by louwrentius on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:32PM (#23293516)
No, I think you misunderstand: read about the scrubs, they run weekly or monthly. Nothing accidental about that.

I keep my server off most of the time. And that is a nice way of missing scrubs. In my case the scrub did what it needs to do: find disks with bad sectors. I should do something extra in the future to run scrubs if they miss their schedule.

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