One of our IDE & SATA RAID card manufacturers is telling us we need to run some sort of synchronization utility at least every month to prevent disks from corrupting. We are having an issue where the disks are getting marked bad, when they are in fact fully functional when we format and try to use them again.
This is disturbing to me. I am continuing to feel that this company (maybe the entire technology) is still have baked. We don’t have these issues with newer SCSI drives and controllers.
Oh and the synchronization utility they want us to use took 3 days to run on a disk array with 1tb of data. These guys have got to be kidding…