Justin Piszcz wrote:

I have several questions, to make things more clear I have segmented this
e-mail a bit-- any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated, 
thank you.
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So I continued to use the disk and it started failing again:
A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md2.
It could be related to component device /dev/sda3.
This is as it happened according to the kernel/dmesg:

(snip)

BTW: I have already submitted an RMA for this disk (9th RMA!) I just 
cannot get
over how many of these are failing.

That many bad drives in a row seems unlikely. I would tend to suspect 
some kind of other cause such as power issues, etc. though maybe it's 
some kind of design flaw..