well, another drive finally down....
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I guess I just abuse hard-drives at home... I have had twice as many hard-drive failures as at work, and work we have 100x the number of drives.... Luckily, this one is mirrored. I was wondering if this would happen. I made a RAID1 earlier this year for my photos, my two oldest 200gig drives. The RAID1 broke mysteriously about 2 months ago. I managed to track down some software to rebuild the partition tables and bring the files up without RAID 1, and both drives came up working... but I was afraid to mirror them again, so I used a sync tool to daily sync the two drives together.... no rebuilds if one failed again. It just failed, went offline, the bios sees a disk there, but windows does not. I guess I get to replace a drive for myself for Christmas.... :sigh: at least no data lost. But I was really expecting it, I have never had a RAID1 fail without a hard-drive going out... so now I know, the raid broke because the disk failure was eminent.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I guess I just abuse hard-drives at home... I have had twice as many hard-drive failures as at work, and work we have 100x the number of drives.... Luckily, this one is mirrored. I was wondering if this would happen. I made a RAID1 earlier this year for my photos, my two oldest 200gig drives. The RAID1 broke mysteriously about 2 months ago. I managed to track down some software to rebuild the partition tables and bring the files up without RAID 1, and both drives came up working... but I was afraid to mirror them again, so I used a sync tool to daily sync the two drives together.... no rebuilds if one failed again. It just failed, went offline, the bios sees a disk there, but windows does not. I guess I get to replace a drive for myself for Christmas.... :sigh: at least no data lost. But I was really expecting it, I have never had a RAID1 fail without a hard-drive going out... so now I know, the raid broke because the disk failure was eminent.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Are these drives adequately cooled? Two 7200rpm drives close together might be getting a bit warm and failing prematurely.
jrem wrote:
Are these drives adequately cooled?
well, they have a fan on them, all my drives do. But those do run a bit hotter than my new drive (seagate). Temperatures Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 38 °C (100 °F) WDC WD740GD-00FLA1 42 °C (108 °F) Seagate ST3500641AS 39 °C (102 °F) WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0 44 °C (111 °F) just to get an idea... the WD740 is next to the WD2000 x 2 drives, all three share the same fan. I may upgrade that tray from an 80mm fan to a 4 drive with a 120mm fan. the 150 and ST3500 are both in a 3 drive x 120mm fan with no drive at the hub. -- modified at 20:52 Sunday 29th October, 2006
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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jrem wrote:
Are these drives adequately cooled?
well, they have a fan on them, all my drives do. But those do run a bit hotter than my new drive (seagate). Temperatures Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 38 °C (100 °F) WDC WD740GD-00FLA1 42 °C (108 °F) Seagate ST3500641AS 39 °C (102 °F) WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0 44 °C (111 °F) just to get an idea... the WD740 is next to the WD2000 x 2 drives, all three share the same fan. I may upgrade that tray from an 80mm fan to a 4 drive with a 120mm fan. the 150 and ST3500 are both in a 3 drive x 120mm fan with no drive at the hub. -- modified at 20:52 Sunday 29th October, 2006
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
If you don't mind an OT question, how do you get those temp figures for the drives? Do you have a separate sensing device?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
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If you don't mind an OT question, how do you get those temp figures for the drives? Do you have a separate sensing device?
-------------------------------- "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke
Richie308 wrote:
how do you get those temp figures for the drives?
http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=3&ps=UE&lang=en[^]
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I guess I just abuse hard-drives at home... I have had twice as many hard-drive failures as at work, and work we have 100x the number of drives.... Luckily, this one is mirrored. I was wondering if this would happen. I made a RAID1 earlier this year for my photos, my two oldest 200gig drives. The RAID1 broke mysteriously about 2 months ago. I managed to track down some software to rebuild the partition tables and bring the files up without RAID 1, and both drives came up working... but I was afraid to mirror them again, so I used a sync tool to daily sync the two drives together.... no rebuilds if one failed again. It just failed, went offline, the bios sees a disk there, but windows does not. I guess I get to replace a drive for myself for Christmas.... :sigh: at least no data lost. But I was really expecting it, I have never had a RAID1 fail without a hard-drive going out... so now I know, the raid broke because the disk failure was eminent.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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jrem wrote:
Are these drives adequately cooled?
well, they have a fan on them, all my drives do. But those do run a bit hotter than my new drive (seagate). Temperatures Motherboard 42 °C (108 °F) WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 38 °C (100 °F) WDC WD740GD-00FLA1 42 °C (108 °F) Seagate ST3500641AS 39 °C (102 °F) WDC WD2000JD-00GBB0 44 °C (111 °F) just to get an idea... the WD740 is next to the WD2000 x 2 drives, all three share the same fan. I may upgrade that tray from an 80mm fan to a 4 drive with a 120mm fan. the 150 and ST3500 are both in a 3 drive x 120mm fan with no drive at the hub. -- modified at 20:52 Sunday 29th October, 2006
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
