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post #41 of 46
10/1/12 at 3:34am
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Forgot to post here, but my third HD came in a few days ago. I used WDIDLE and WDTLER and setup a RAID 5. Took about a day to initialize 3 2TB hard drives but initialized without a problem. Booted into windows 7 and started transferring data to it. It seemed to work fine, until it froze up after transferring approx 2TB worth of data. It worked fine with RAID 0, don't see why it would freeze with RAID 5.
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post #42 of 46
10/1/12 at 3:36am
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Forgot to post here, but my third HD came in a few days ago. I used WDIDLE and WDTLER and setup a RAID 5. Took about a day to initialize 3 2TB hard drives but initialized without a problem. Booted into windows 7 and started transferring data to it. It seemed to work fine, until it froze up after transferring approx 2TB worth of data. It worked fine with RAID 0, don't see why it would freeze with RAID 5.

What the heck?
What controller are you using (I didn't read the thread, sorry redface.gif )
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post #43 of 46
10/1/12 at 3:39am
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I'm using a RocketRaid 4320. I also double checked to see if my drives were bad by individually running chkdsk for each one and no bad sectors were found. weird.
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post #44 of 46
10/1/12 at 4:01am
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I'm using a RocketRaid 4320. I also double checked to see if my drives were bad by individually running chkdsk for each one and no bad sectors were found. weird.

chkdsk isn't a disk diagnostic compared to a manufacturer one smile.gif
That controller isn't exactly cheap, either...
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10/1/12 at 4:03am
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ahh..RAID..Haven't been able to afford since they jacked the prices up wth.gifsad-smiley-002.gif

WD Blues are good.
Samsung too.
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post #46 of 46
10/17/12 at 1:11am
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chkdsk isn't a disk diagnostic compared to a manufacturer one smile.gif
That controller isn't exactly cheap, either...

Ah shouldve clarified, I ran that and the "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows" from the Western Digital Website. Drives seem to be in good shape.

Anyway just an update, I ran the drives as RAID 5 using onboard RAID, and did a media patrol to check for bad sectors. No bad sectors were found. I was able to run the RAID 5 as normal, albeit using onboard RAID.

Anyway, I was able to RMA the RAID card. Sent them the card and kept in contact. They determined that the card was faulty and they sent out a new card, complete with box and everything. I setup a RAID 6 and transferred all my data and it worked. No freezing or anything. I guess the problem was a faulty controller. Problem solved. thumb.gif

So currently, this is how I have my media setup/backed up.

Main media drive: 4x 2TB WDGreens as RAID 6
Backup of media drive: 2x 1.5TB WDGreens as RAID 0
Backup of Backup of media drive: 1x 3TB Hitachi in an external enclosure.
Offsite backup: Crashplan. (Uploading will take a while but hopefully the end result will be a reliable offsite backup)
Edited by caffeinescandal - 10/17/12 at 1:34am
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