On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 07:18:43PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: >> I wonder what would happen if I just yanked the power plug out of a >> running drive. They advise against it! > > You would test the RAID alright, but you might send the hard drive > heads crashing into the surface, requiring another disk. I thought drives were designed so that killing the power autoparked the heads. When the power goes out, drives always seem to be fine. Mike