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Hard drive acting up
Daedalus
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In my computer, I have one 640 GB drive that holds my operating systems and so forth, which we'll call my boot drive, and two 1.5 TB drives in a Linux software RAID, mirrored, that hold movies and music and pictures and downloads and the like.
Lately, the RAID has been acting up on me. Occasionally, it'll stop reading for a second or two, I'll hear an audible "click", and then it will resume as if nothing ever happened. This is causing annoying pauses in video playback, moments of unresponsiveness when I'm browsing folders, and the like.
I think I've narrowed it down to the older of the two drives in the RAID by use of some of Ubuntu's drive diagnostics tools:
Good drive:
Evil drive:
Notice how the bad drive has those downward spikes in the throughput line (blue), while the access time (green) jumps to over one full second? Those coincide with a click.
Now, obviously the bad drive is not long for this world, but because data isn't being lost, the Seagate support tool won't give me a warranty claim code. So what do I do here? Is there anything that can alleviate these symptoms or do I just need to replace the drive?
EDIT: I'm sorry, it might be the newer drive that's affected rather than the older one. I'm not entirely sure after all.
Lately, the RAID has been acting up on me. Occasionally, it'll stop reading for a second or two, I'll hear an audible "click", and then it will resume as if nothing ever happened. This is causing annoying pauses in video playback, moments of unresponsiveness when I'm browsing folders, and the like.
I think I've narrowed it down to the older of the two drives in the RAID by use of some of Ubuntu's drive diagnostics tools:
Good drive:
Evil drive:
Notice how the bad drive has those downward spikes in the throughput line (blue), while the access time (green) jumps to over one full second? Those coincide with a click.
Now, obviously the bad drive is not long for this world, but because data isn't being lost, the Seagate support tool won't give me a warranty claim code. So what do I do here? Is there anything that can alleviate these symptoms or do I just need to replace the drive?
EDIT: I'm sorry, it might be the newer drive that's affected rather than the older one. I'm not entirely sure after all.
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