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		imtringued on April 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On WD Red NAS Drives There is no choice to be made. Once too many disks fail the entire array has to be taken offline and that's exactly what happens.

labawi on April 22, 2020 [–]

Disks "failing" is the problem. If you treat drive state as binary (flawless / eject), you can easily eject too many drives for errors on different 0.000001% of data, crashing the array along with the data.

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