Iain Denby Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 In the last 2 days, my system has become very unstable (weird errors and crashes etc), very slow to boot up and launch programs, and the hard drive has been making some very unusual crackling and clicking noises, even when Idle. I thought it might be virus (even though it's not connected to the internet), but I've scanned my system and all is OK. I've run Chech Disk, and all is clean (although it took 3.5hours to do it).I checked 'speed fan' (a program that monitors the fans and HDs) yesterday and all was good, but this morning it reports the health of my Maxtor 120gb Hard Drive at about 40% ! Am I right in thinking my HD is about to die, and if so can I have the contents 'ghosted' onto a new HD ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 i would back everything up asap. it sounds like you hard drive will stop working very soon. i have had this happen, and lost work and libraries. it is no fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted April 18, 2005 Author Share Posted April 18, 2005 i would back everything up asap. it sounds like you hard drive will stop working very soon. i have had this happen, and lost work and libraries. it is no fun. Just taken it in, and they think it's going to die too. I just hope they can boot it up 1 more time to be able to copy everything across. It's my C Drive where all my programs are (my data files are on another drive), so I can re install them if neccessarry, but a bit of a pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 when i had this happen before we think the problem was related to a speaker to close to the hard drive. i lost 2 drives within a week. the speaker was supposedly shielded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted April 18, 2005 Author Share Posted April 18, 2005 when i had this happen before we think the problem was related to a speaker to close to the hard drive. i lost 2 drives within a week. the speaker was supposedly shielded. My speaker is about 600mm from the HD, so it won't have been that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dp Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 happened to me 18 months back pulled drive and put in sealed bag into fridge overnight (not freezer) and it was enough to save the data and the job at the time hope you save it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Must be going around, One of my drives is doing the same thing. I've had it with failign drives, happens about every 2-3 years with me, so I just ordered an 8 channel RAID controller and am picking up 4 new drives to run in a RAID 0 configuration. Unless the whole array goes or is killed by a virus then I'll be safer. I hope. I just hope everything is ok before the new drives get here. My drive mirrors have been less than successful the last week and as of this moment I'm not able to access my computer remotely, so I'm a bit worried it's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bully712 Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 My computer is making a noise when starting up. Once it boots up, it's fine. I thought maybe one of my fans was going bad. Could my problem also be the HD? I just installed a secondary HD a few months ago. Could it be my primary HD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshenko Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I just ordered an 8 channel RAID controller and am picking up 4 new drives to run in a RAID 0 configuration. Unless the whole array goes or is killed by a virus then I'll be safer. You'll probably want to consider at least a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup, if not RAID 5. RAID 0 (striping) will give you great performance but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Good link to RAID definitions: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci214332,00.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted April 18, 2005 Author Share Posted April 18, 2005 You'll probably want to consider at least a RAID 1 (mirroring) setup, if not RAID 5. RAID 0 (striping) will give you great performance but no redundancy or fault tolerance. Good link to RAID definitions: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci214332,00.html I do already have a RAID (striped) set-up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshenko Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 I do already have a RAID (striped) set-up My point was that a striped (RAID level 0) setup does not offer any protection if one of the drives fails. Jeff mentioned that he was going to set up his new array as RAID 0, and I was suggesting otherwise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 Sorry I meant RAID 1, was typing faster than my brain could think. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted April 18, 2005 Share Posted April 18, 2005 i think this thread jinxed me. my operating system went down around 11 this morning, and never came backup. when the IT guy was reloading the operating system, he accidentally deleted all of the partitions on my second hard drive. anyone know how to get these back without losing the data on the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Denby Posted April 19, 2005 Author Share Posted April 19, 2005 Phew. Managed to get my HD changed and everythinf copied over. Maxtor HD has a 3 year warrenty, so no charge. Just got to re-authorize viz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted April 22, 2005 Share Posted April 22, 2005 Well the new RAID array is installed and a new 550W Antec put in. For ONCE in my life an install has gone right the first time! I was actually really surprised how easy is was to install a RAID controller having never done one before. Just plug it in and go really. If anyone is looking for one, I'd highly reccomend the 3ware escalade. Very easy to setup. I bought the 8 port SATA version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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