I upgraded my small 100Gig hard drive for a 750 Gig drive. Rebuild went fine & all data was safe.

 

I placed the 100 gig drive in my windows box & when I went to format the drive it started to click. It formatted fine but when I went to copy over some data, the drive died. The heads locked up tight.

 

I decided the drive probably has been going out for a while, so I decided to try & make my hard drives go to sleep after 1 hour. I have had previous problems with that. Machine freezing up & such.

 

My machine has been running now for a week & not one lockup. I guess the small drive was not waking up & it was locking up the system.

 

Strange thing was after multiple parity checks this drive never showed any signs of failing.

 

Happy camper now. I have now given my Motherboard a rating of (A) instead of (B-) since the lockup problem was not the motherboard but a drive going out.

 

Phil

Good to hear.

 

Assuming that drive is a 3.5", that is an ooooold drive.

 

 

Bill

Strange thing was after multiple parity checks this drive never showed any signs of failing.

 

Dumping the S.M.A.R.T. logs or doing S.M.A.R.T.  short and long tests might have revealed more.

Even a basic health test should have revealed something.

 

smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sd?

 

root@Atlas /mnt/disk1/bittorrent/_torrents>smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sdc

smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

 

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

 

 

smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sd?

smartctl -d ata -t short /dev/sd?

smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/sd?

smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sd?

 

 

I really think a basic health check should be part of the unraid interface.

Good to hear.

 

Assuming that drive is a 3.5", that is an ooooold drive.

 

 

Bill

 

I still have some 2.8, 5g and 8g'ers around (idle of course).

 

I'm going to take apart some 2GB scsi's I have to grab out the magnets. 

way OT now but...

 

http://www.supermagnete.de/eng/magnets.php?group=blocks_big

 

check out the death magnet at the bottom

Good to hear.

 

Assuming that drive is a 3.5", that is an ooooold drive.

 

 

Bill

 

Yea it was a old IDE Western Digital drive. Didn't have any other use for it & just put it in the server. Now I have one other old drive to get rid of but it seems to be working for now. A 160 gig IDE WD. 

Good to hear.

 

Assuming that drive is a 3.5", that is an ooooold drive.

 

 

Bill

 

I still have some 2.8, 5g and 8g'ers around (idle of course).

 

I'm going to take apart some 2GB scsi's I have to grab out the magnets. 

 

I have all of my old drives as well, but even those that may work aren't worth it based on watts per GB.

 

 

Bill

I have every drive i have ever owned... literally hundreds. I don't RME ever and i dont throw them out ever. One day i will own a furnace but until then they live in boxes on shelves.