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The past six months I've had hdds dropping like flies. This time one of the 1TB Samsungs has packed up :/ Just checked and its 3 months old. What the heck am I doing to these hdds? Standard stuff, machine locked up, rebooted and its degraded in the array. It's a storage drive so not really hammered at all.
So far in six months I've had 2*500gb Seagates 7200.11's die, 1x Samsung and 1x Maxtor I think.
I'm wondering if its something I'm doing but they all had 120mm fans over them. The machines themselves run off UPS's that do filter the power. Prior to this I never had hdds fail.
How are the drives mounted? How much space is there between them? Are you sure the drives are actually dead?
They are mounted horizontally, there is about 1cm between them.
I will rip the drive out and put it in my caddy. The 7200.11's are the ones with the iffy firmware. Some have gotten them to work after flashing, I can't trust them.
Yup, I'm not surprised about the 7200.11s but the others are a bit more surprising so I'm wondering if the problem lies somewhere else. I've had drives disappear out of an array before only to prove perfectly fine. Usually when that happens it's just a bad sector which the drive fixes itself but that's enough to trip up the array.
Hmmm, ok thanks I'll have a play.
Don't Samsungs have an intrinsic dislike of RAID? That's what I was told after fitting two and having issues with them a few months back.
Well you got 2 months 3 weeks more than my 1tb samsung and 3 months more than my mate's!
Admiral Huddy
05-02-2009, 10:01
3 HDD and 4 opticals in 4 years :(
Only time my samsungs have packed in was due to overheating and dodgy cables (having both at the same time is not fun) however after 5 years my 160gb's are still going in one pc (raided) and my 1tb drives are 6 months old still going. The 1tb drives get a bit hot sandwiched in a shuttle with no cooling, get a bit upset after 12hrs of data copying.
Mine did seem to be getting rather hot, but don't see why as each drive bay has a cooling slot and air drawn over it. But could the heat be generated by the drive being faulty?
Just realised I'm working quite close to the roxo place that handles the warranty today so going to leave early and hand deliver it (with love!). If I'd have realised earlier I'd have offered to take yours, Matt.
Why is it I have to return it to a different place than I bought it from? I thought my contract was with them? Damned computer sellers get out of anything :angry:
The ES and ES.2 Seagates and WD RE2 and RE3 are much better candidates for RAID use but are of course quite a lot more expensive.
Lol, RMA booked at 6:20am, replacement drive in hand 9:04am ;D
Typically it's a "re-certified" drive. Again, why is a new but dead drive not replaced with a new drive???
Just checked my RAID array (it doesn't give me any online diagnostics so I have to reboot), to find one of its disks had gone offline. I think it's the same channel that went down last time (using a different drive), so I suspect either one of the cables is a little noisy, or the controller is getting senile (it is nearly eight years old). Kicked off a rebuild to see if it'll bring the disk back online but at some point I may see if I have another IDE cable that is long enough to do a swap.
I need to find time to have a very major clearout of crap across all my systems and then archive what I want to keep. Backing up 5TB worth of miscellaneous stuff just isn't possible.
The ES and ES.2 Seagates and WD RE2 and RE3 are much better candidates for RAID use but are of course quite a lot more expensive.
Samsung offer a "RAID Class" version of the spinpoint. Says better reliability. Or another way of saying the normal ones are less reliable. Why didn't I see that before I bought mine :angry:
Running some diagnostics on the replacement now, to see if this one is likely to die just as quick...
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