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Thulium: Disk Failure ยท Jonathan Chan
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My Western Digital Red drives from 2013 are still good - Jan-Philip Gehrcke, PhD
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| | Got two Western Digital RED class 3 TB disks (WD30EFRX) in July 2013. The power supply of my NAS machine died last week, but those disks still run. Fascinated! One disk has a Power_On_Hours count o...
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Seagate External Drive Teardown - Hello Blog
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| | TL;DR I disassembled a 4TB Seagate external drive that had failed. The...
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FreeBSD - A True Unix Way: ZFS Managability
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| | In this blog post, we will focus on ZFS from a manageability perspective. We will cover following topics ZFS Storage Status Monitoring Physi...
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Hard Drive Predictive Failures on Linux and Exadata | Tanel Poder Consulting
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| This post also applies to non-Exadata systems as hard drives work the same way in other storage arrays too - just the commands you would use for extracting the disk-level metrics would be different. Scroll down to smartctl if you wan't to skip the Oracle stuff and get straight to the Linux disk diagnosis commands. I just noticed that one of our Exadatas had a disk put into predictive failure mode and thought to show how to measure why the disk is in that mode (as opposed to just replacing it without real...