Replacing a drive before it failed
smartctl -H said PASSED right up to the day I pulled it, which is the most useful thing I can tell you about smartctl -H.
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Storage
The under-stairs thermal problem
Drive temperatures went from a steady 38°C to touching 54°C over four days in late June, which is the sort of number that gets your attention.
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The machine is unremarkable on purpose: a low-power board, 32GB of ECC, four 8TB drives in two mirrored pairs, and a boot SSD that is not part of the array and holds nothing I would miss.
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