To go back on the Thecuses and their fabulous features, we have a Thecus 7700+ here at work and recently a hard drive failed because of a heat problem. (WD2002FYPS)
so guys and gals, the hot swap is absolutely go! took the faulty drive out without turning ANYTHING off, replaced it and it started rebuilding the RAID (5) straight away. 24 hours later the RAID is healthy again. moreover, the shares were still available during the rebuilding process.
i know this is supposed to be a feature according to the manual, but isn't it nice it's a feature that actually works as it should!
am always quite concerned about hot swapping and find it rather a rather nerve wrecking process!
I've read/heard from colleagues that once you get up to around 6TB+ of data, it statistically becomes more probable, that you will lose data due to a dropped drive, so after that we should be using RAID6 and probably XFS (rather than EXT3/4)
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