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Are my hard drives dead?

sabyulsabyul Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I was recording some direct feed video from my xbox360 to my computer today. I have a software RAID0 set up with 2 1tb hard drives for this purpose.

I was recording as usual (this is not the first time I've done this) and then suddenly, my footage drive (it was G:) disappeared from my computer and all that. I thought it was odd, so I restarted my computer. Now it doesn't boot-- it just hangs on "Auto-detecting SATA 1..."

What's going on here? Are my drives toast?

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  • sabyulsabyul Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Just managed to boot, actually. I'm in windows. Disk management says that the disks failed... gonna try to repair.

    If Disk Management called my drive "Missing", is it gone forever?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    You are in all likelihood fucked. One of the two drives might be fine, but since you were using RAID 0, all the data on it is gone anyway. The other drive is dead.

    This is why you should use RAID 1 instead of RAID 0.

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  • sabyulsabyul Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    That fucking sucks. That drive was like 2 weeks old.

    What are some good ways to try to prevent this from happening again?

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  • DaedalusDaedalus Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Use RAID 1, so the drives are mirrored, and when one drive dies, replace it immediately.

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  • sabyulsabyul Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Thing is, I absolutely need striping in order to write the data fast enough. My choice then would be RAID1+0, but that's a lot of drives...

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Intel Matrix RAID, you can have RAID 0 and RAID 1 with just 2 drives.

    You need an Intel chipset though.

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  • sabyulsabyul Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    What the fuck?

    Restarted a couple times, and now it's back.

    What does it meaaaaaaan...

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  • SatsumomoSatsumomo Rated PG! Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It means you should BACKUP anything you have right now that you don't want to lose.

    I had a disk that died after a few days of getting it, but it would work now and then, until about a week later it just never worked again. Good thing I didn't have any important info on it.

    Hard drives will just tease you like this until they really die.

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