Tank

So i was playing around with autocad and all of a sudden my whole computer froze up and i figure it would go away within a few minutes, but next thing I know I get a message that pops up telling me it cant load this and this and to restart the computer. So I did, and then it took forever to detect my raid array and hard drives. When it finally did it said raid array degraded, one of my hard drives wasnt listed in the raid array.

last time I had an issue I was able to synchronize the hard drives to get everything back but now it wont even show up as a hard drive for the array. It shows up as a separate hard drive in the bios but not in windows or the raid array.

so my question is how can i get it back without losing any data I currently have on my hard drives? I had everything set up in raid 0+1

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DJZeratul

did you run any kind of diagnostics tools on that drive that failed?

a RAID 0+1 allows for one drive to fail, since you have a mirrored copy of it in the other stripe. so replacing that member disk with a working one or adding it in the RAID BIOS to the raid set should start the repair.

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HITandRUN

Well if the HD shows up in BIOS and not in windows than it is not all the way dead yet. Raid 0 recovery is always a problem and you saying you were dealing with it already before. I would assume its your mobo. I would try to see if a mobo with the same raid 0 controller would do the trick.

Tank

Well the hard drive is done so I just scraped the raid array all together and will just do manual backups once a week or every two

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DJZeratul

Well, you still have a viable RAID 0 if you only lost one disk... so at least you didnt lose any data Sorry about your loss.

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Tank

well, that makes 4 drives in less than 6 months that failed on me
Hard drives hate me, its time to get money and go SSD

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DJZeratul

Damn, that seems like an excessive amount of drive failures... just curious, which companies did the drives that failed come from? Do you have any temperature data from the drives that failed?

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Tank

One seagate, Two WD, one Hitachi, and dunno about the temperature of them but I did have them in a hard drive cage with two fans on em

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DJZeratul

Hmm... Very strange indeed. Sorry about your bad luck recently.

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