[PLUG] Survey: Linux RAID mirror sync time

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Just curious what folk's experience is with this.
If you replace one drive of a RAID mirror pair with
a blank drive how long does it take to sync?

Maybe 5 years ago I replaced a 160GB drive in such a
configuration and as I recall the sync was about 2 hours.
That was a 500 MHz Celeron with PATA drives.

I believe that faster drives (SATA and even SAS) and
faster chip sets and bus speeds may cancel out the
penalty of larger drive sizes.  I only ever had to
sync a drive that one time so the data sample size is
way too small :-)

Thanks,
Eric
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