As it's the 1st Sunday of the month and #mdadm's periodic checks runs, here's a short plug for all those who want the #SoftwareRAID state in their #LinuxDesktop monitored without installing a fully fledged #monitoring system like Icinga or Xymon:

I wrote a small helper for the #systemtray showing an icon with green, yellow or red state indicators and doing notifications in case of change.

https://github.com/xtaran/systray-mdstat
https://packages.debian.org/systray-mdstat

#systray #systraymdstat #procmdstat #linux #workstation

This is why I wrote https://github.com/xtaran/systray-mdstat #mdadm #raid #systraymdstat #perl

I though was already anticipating this disk failure and one or two months ago I precautiously added two more disks (Seagate Barracuda 8 TB) to the #RAID1 with so far two WD Red 3 TB disks 😅 with the plan to replace both initial WD Red disks and in the end extend the RAID1 to 8 TB disk space netto.

So yes, I had a RAID1 with 4 disks in my workstation at home for a while. 🤓😎