SATA RAID Enclosure w/ Temperature Monitoring?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 22, 2004 @03:30AM from the cool-storage-is-happy-storage dept.

vanyel asks: "Yesterday, my external USB 2.0 drive enclosure finished cooking a 3/4 full 200G drive after its fan quit working who knows how long ago. In the time honored tradition of closing the barn door *after* the horse has wandered away, I'm accelerating my quest for a RAID solution. In particular, I want something that will support 4 SATA drives and has temperature monitoring that doesn't require a particular vendor's RAID card or Windows. Better yet, is there a RAID-5 NAS that isn't in the $4-5000USD price range. Anyone with a better barn door to close this problem with?"

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Use SMART? by crow · 2004-12-22 03:37 · Score: 4, Informative

At least with ATA drives, you can usually use smartd to monitor your drives. This includes temperature and various failure indicators. Usually when a drive fails, there is plenty of warning from small failures that the drive recovers from. When you run smartd, you can receive these warnings.