Hard drive replacement - any recommendations?

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Adam Lipscombe

Folks,

I have an ABit KT7A-RAID mboard with 2 IBM Deskstar 40 gb hard drives
attached as
a RAID. Up until recently this has been fine.

Now, one of the drives has started making an odd "clonking" noise during
normal operation and the system freezes for about 15 seconds. It usually
recovers, although not always.
Occasionally the same drive goes AWOL completely - and cant be found by the
RAID BIOS on a reboot. Plugging / unplugging and changing the cables seems
to help (sometimes).


I would like to change to drives as a pair before they die completely. Are
there any recomendations for a replacments?


I want something at least as fast - I thought about a pair if WD 40gb "JB"
drives, bu am not sure...
(It would be nice to have an upgrade path to SATA for when I change the
mboard)


Any recommendations?



TIA - Adam
 
Folks,
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That multi drive raid system with the parity setup is looking better
and better to me. As storage goes up, it's getting to be too much
data to rely on today's mass manufactured hard drives.

It's one thing to get a replacement drive in six weeks, it's another
to be up and running the next day.
 
I have an ABit KT7A-RAID mboard with 2 IBM Deskstar 40 gb
hard drives attached as a RAID. Up until recently this has been fine.
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Now, one of the drives has started making an odd "clonking"
noise during normal operation and the system freezes for
about 15 seconds. It usually recovers, although not always.
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Occasionally the same drive goes AWOL completely - and cant
be found by the RAID BIOS on a reboot. Plugging / unplugging
and changing the cables seems to help (sometimes).
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They aint called DeathStars for nothing.
I would like to change to drives as a pair before they die completely.
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Yep, with hard drives so cheap now, there is no point
in bothering with flakey drives, into the bin the go.
Are there any recomendations for a replacments?
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I want something at least as fast - I thought about
a pair if WD 40gb "JB" drives, bu am not sure...
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Yep, very decent drives.
(It would be nice to have an upgrade path
to SATA for when I change the mboard)
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Thats not going to be that cheap at this time.
Any recommendations?
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Get the WDs, you wont regret it.
 
I prefer WD, never had a problem with any of them in 10 years. My latest are
the 8MB cache versions.
 
Get the WDs, you wont regret it.
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How about 1) no fluid bearings and 2) no SMART temperature monitoring.
That's enough to keep me from buying WD. Weren't we reading about this time
last year that WD would be coming out with fluid bearing models in the first
quarter of '03? What's their time table now, 1st quarter '04?
 
How about 1) no fluid bearings and 2) no SMART temperature monitoring.
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What I have said are disadvantages with WDs a number of times now.

Another is the unique jumper config when its the only drive
on the ribbon cable and cable select isnt being used.
That's enough to keep me from buying WD.
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Your problem.
Weren't we reading about this time last year that WD
would be coming out with fluid bearing models in the first
quarter of '03? What's their time table now, 1st quarter '04?
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I've never seen any date stated by WD.

I've just got a Samsung myself, which doesnt have any of
those 3 downsides with the WDs, and less power use too,
mainly just to see what they are like. The main problem
with the Samsungs is that most dont flog them.
 
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