I have a 1200 GhZ Athlon T-Bird on an MSI K7T Turbo Mobo w/512k RAM running windows XP. I also have two 40GB IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045 Hard Drives and an 80Gig Maxtor HD.
About six months ago, I had the IBM drives them connected to a Promise Fasttrak100 Lite (built into the Mobo) IDE port running RAID 0. For a little under a year the setup had worked great, but then one day I was saving something, and one of the hard drives begin to make an odd little clicking sound, causing the computer to totally freeze - bizzare errors would occur, but the long and short of it was that whenever certain sectors were accessed on the hard drive, that drive seized up and stopped operating until I reset the computer. When I discovered the corruption was spreading, I called IBM, and they told me to send it in and make a claim on the warranty. I did so, and they sent me back what appeared to be a perfectly good drive (although made from used parts). It opperated perfectly for a couple months or so, until one day I woke up, went to my computer (which I had left on overnight, although it wasn't actually doing anything at all) and heard a sound sort of like a rumble followed by a couple clicks repeating over and over again coming from the drive bays. This seriously annoyed me, but I just assumed IBM had screwed up their replacement drive. I sent it in, and just a week or two ago got back the drive and hooked it back up to the RAID array. That day, it worked flawlessly. This morning, I again woke up, went to my computer (which had again been on doing nothing) and heard the same rumble-click-click that it had made earlier.
Does anyone have any idea as to why these drives are being corrupted? IBM accepted the warranty without claiming I did something that damaged the drive, so if it is my mobo or something, it isn't at all obvious... what could this be?
About six months ago, I had the IBM drives them connected to a Promise Fasttrak100 Lite (built into the Mobo) IDE port running RAID 0. For a little under a year the setup had worked great, but then one day I was saving something, and one of the hard drives begin to make an odd little clicking sound, causing the computer to totally freeze - bizzare errors would occur, but the long and short of it was that whenever certain sectors were accessed on the hard drive, that drive seized up and stopped operating until I reset the computer. When I discovered the corruption was spreading, I called IBM, and they told me to send it in and make a claim on the warranty. I did so, and they sent me back what appeared to be a perfectly good drive (although made from used parts). It opperated perfectly for a couple months or so, until one day I woke up, went to my computer (which I had left on overnight, although it wasn't actually doing anything at all) and heard a sound sort of like a rumble followed by a couple clicks repeating over and over again coming from the drive bays. This seriously annoyed me, but I just assumed IBM had screwed up their replacement drive. I sent it in, and just a week or two ago got back the drive and hooked it back up to the RAID array. That day, it worked flawlessly. This morning, I again woke up, went to my computer (which had again been on doing nothing) and heard the same rumble-click-click that it had made earlier.
Does anyone have any idea as to why these drives are being corrupted? IBM accepted the warranty without claiming I did something that damaged the drive, so if it is my mobo or something, it isn't at all obvious... what could this be?