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  Promise Pegasus Maintenance Routines?

  Posted by Sashi Rajamahendran on September 24, 2016 at 4:19 am

  Hi,

  I’ve just switched from a NAS to a Pegasus Raid system. I would the NAS did give me countless reminders to make sure I did SMART testing on the drives and regular data scrubbing.

  Regarding Media Patrol, Redundancy Check and Synchronisation.
  Which of these should I run if needed and how often?
  I’m assuming Media Patrol is the smart test and redundancy sounds like scrubbing so what is Synchronisation?

  Do they take many hours to complete and if I shutdown the Pegasus will they continue when it restarts?

  Thanks for you help

  Sashi Rajamahendran replied 9 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rainer Wirth

  September 26, 2016 at 12:00 pm

  Hi Sashi,

  media patrol is an automatic routine check with your raid system.
  You can switch it on or off.
  We don’t run it at all. We didn’t have serious problems for years – just
  a bad drive here and there. The rebuilt was never a problem. All of our raids
  are on raid level 6 plus spare. After 5 years or 50.000 working hours,
  we swap the complete drives for new ones and use the old drives as
  back-up safety.

  cheers

  Rainer

  factstory
  Rainer Wirth
  phone_0049-177-2156086
  Mac pro 8core
  Adobe,FCP,Avid
  several raid systems
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  Bob Zelin

  September 26, 2016 at 12:34 pm

  Ranier offers excellent advice. Promise supplies the truly horrible Toshiba SATA drives. At some point, you should swap out all the drives for WD RED, or HGST NAS drives – both which are not very expensive and certainly more reliable.
  I would not worry about the Maintenance Routines. Even with the Toshiba drives, the rebuild process works quite well.

  Bob Zelin

  Bob Zelin
  Rescue 1, Inc.
  bobzelin@icloud.com
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  Sashi Rajamahendran

  September 26, 2016 at 2:43 pm

  Thanks Rainer and Bob, much appreciated.

  Sashi

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