Thats something the raid handles. Plus its loud in the server room, we have to wear ear defenders. I'd assume that in most cases its on smart errors. However, a

Thats something the raid handles. Plus its loud in the server room, we have to wear ear defenders. I'd assume that in most cases its on smart errors. However, as I let Dell do all the heavy lifting its pure speculation. From talking to ex-seagate people most errors are because of misalignment, X-IO (http://xiostorage.com/ http://xiostorage.com/) make their money by bundling Re-alignment tooling into their disk packs. If I was in the market for pure block storage again, these are the guys I'd buy. (they call it remanufacture)