Hard drives issues

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

Well i think its gonna happen again soon...i go through hard drives like they are condoms... I got on today and heard loud ticking noises during windows boot up, which leads me to believe its the main drive i'm currently working on backing it up, and the transfer speed bounce between 40mbs all the way down to 2 and 3 mbs, and the 2 to 3 mbs speeds are accompanied by a faint ticking ( I turned on my box fan so i cant hear them LOL). Anyways if i disappear for awhile its because I'm out of a hard drive....

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:09 pm

That sucks but if you're short on cash to get new one I can send u my 2 spare seagate barracuda 120gb since i don't need them. If set up in mirrored RAID u will never have same problem again. Let me know if interested.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

i have almost a terrabyte(or whatever) of hard drive space, although half of it is external...i do have 2 hardrives so if one does go ill have the other, its stopped making the clicking noises, and seems to have fixed itself....i guess it was its time of the month there for about 5 hours...

I've tried a raid setup be4 but it didnt really work...a bit to complicated for me

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 4:37 am

Raid is great so long as you use a Raid card and don't rely on motherboard raid feature as it tend to be unreliable.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

i dont have the money to buy a raid card...im poor as it is...emaning no matter how cheap i wont be able to afford it i have 0 dollars for spending atm.

I also read up on RAID and this mirroring....and it wouldnt help me in my situation anyways, becuase if i did RAID mirroring if one hardrives dies you loose all your data, and raid 1 saves my information, but if theres a system malfunction( like a power failure or a blue screen) then theres a good chance it could be come corrupted, and screw up the whole windows installation.

Seems like alot of risk, for little gain, if i had a million dollars worth of stuff on my hard drives..maybe its a good idea, but not in this case, just a few hours of reinstalling everything, and its all back to normal.

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:24 pm

Raid 1 is mirror, raid 0 is strip. Strip array is risky since one hard drive failure will compromise the all array. Since you're already using raid 1 you're fine. Just thought u could use some spare drives from your post but if you got 1TB i guess you don't need it.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

yea 1TB on 3 drives, 500 of it being an external usb, im using up a ton of space on my main internal drives(2 250gb SATA drives, so its pretty close to 1TB). Is it strip or mirror that takes away HDD space? I just use my external for storing my back up files, and my music/videos and graphics, so if my HDD does go down ill have that drive available with all my drivers and program install files on it, 250gb HDD are cheap as candy these days so i can always get another one of those if it does go out. I've devised this system of recovery over years of hardware failures(lol), and i just reinstall vista on my other internal, then use microsoft's retarded ass robots to spit out a new installation key for me Very Happy

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:31 pm

mirror takes extra space as it uses a drive as back up, that's what u doing with external drive anyway only difference is that u got more available disk space the way u do it. What u got is more or less a Raid 5 array which is 2 strip drive + 1 mirrored backing up all files.

Secretary of Defense Joined: Feb 16, 2007 Posts: 2379

aye i see