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If it were me, I'd sleep much better if I had replaced it. It may never fail, but how much is your time worth if you had to restore from backups?


Yeah, this is at home, and I have recent backups.

Thanks for the advice. What I'll do then is this:

1. Wait for the restore that's currently under way to finish -- because I've moved the box from Linux to Windows, I'm having to use another Linux box to read the files from my (ext2) backup media and squirt that over the network, so I'd like to finish the restore first.
2. Take a fresh backup, in a Windows-compatible format. I'll probably just use NTBACKUP for this until I find something better.
3. Swap the disk on port 3 for another one.
4. Rebuild the array.
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-- roger