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Drive Failure

Looks like the Seagate that I got replaced under warranty is starting to fail. It’s spitting out Media Errors according to iostat -En, and ZFS has found some checksum errors in it’s weekly scrubs. Trying to get smartmontools installed so I can pull the serial number before yanking the drive from it’s case. Times like this make me wish I had externally accessible, hot swappable drive bays.

I’m happy that ZFS saw the problem and let me know about it early. Much better than losing the drive suddenly. However, this is going to set me back a ways in terms of camera and lens plans. Bah.

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