A while ago, one of the 2 disks in a RAID1 in one of my servers started erroring out. I went to the datacenter, took it out, restarted the machine, now the second disk started showing errors. WTF?
I come home, sit at my pc, and hear very loud CLICK CLICK CLICK. One of the 2 disks in my workstation RAID1 gave up.
*is happy to have been redundant on all fronts* (yes, I also have separate backups of both machines)
The brand of all 3 disks is… Maxtor. Maybe I should spend the extra buck and get Seagate instead.
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April 21st, 2007 at 21:33
You are not the only one
We just installed two new Maxtor DiamondMax 10 80GB disks in our server in a soft RAID1. After two days of activity, one of the drives started failing and went down.
We bought a new one, and will replace it in the next few days. We are lucky that we still have warranty.
In the past, there were also compatibility problems with the nForce 4 chipset and the DiamondMax 10 series, but they should be resolved in the newer ones for a long time.
April 24th, 2007 at 21:17
Narf, seems I disconnected the wrong disk in my workstation, it made a few loud clicks again – Windows XP doesn’t like its harddisk to be taken away from under its nose, it seems. Swapped for the other one, so far so good.