how long did your raptors in raid 0 last

[brainhulk]

mine died this weekend. I've had them since 2007 and I was hoping to use them forever 🙁

at least it gave me an excuse to start a new build...hehe

 

[kleinkinstein]

I had two different arrays from early 2006 to 2010 until one started to "tick" and I quickly, carefully and neatly unraided and saved everything in time. A good free tool to keep in your arsenal is Raid ReclaiME

Today, dinodrives make no sense. Have you heard of nand? :whiste:

 

[Mfusick]

Five years

 

[Zap]

Today, dinodrives make no sense. Have you heard of nand? :whiste:

I think it depends on capacity needs versus performance needs and cost. VelociRaptor 600GB has been $100 on hot deal. Think of 1.2TB worth costing $200 that at low IOPS can sustain transfer close to 300MB/s if it has 200MB platters, and 400MB/s if it has the newer 333MB platters.

 

[Railgun]

Still going. I've since split two into a new system and two in another. These are the 740ADFD variants. I still have a 740GD floating around somewhere. Still works, but not currently in use.

 

[Brahmzy]

I had 3 different Rator / VRaptor arrays over the course of 5/6 years with no failures.

 

[tracerbullet]

I set mine up around 2007 too, pulled it apart last year. So that was 4+ years. Didn't fail, just moved to SSD.

 

[F1shF4t]

Used a 740GD and 740ADFD in raid 0 for a couple of years. Later switched to a 150GB WD VelociRaptor and then finally to SSDs 3 years ago.

No failures while in raid but the 740ADFD died from heat later (my fault entirely) and I sold the 740GD.

 

[exdeath]

Last running raptors I retired also 740GDs in RAID0 from an ancient XP box. Replaced with SSD.

7+ years old constant heavy use including 3 years of hardcore WoW. 3 pass wipe and numerous other full pass write including full format, still clean SMART logs no bad sectors.

Personally never had a HDD fail on me.

 

[Diagrafeas]

Had two WD Raptors WD740GD-00FLC0 in RAID0 from October 2005 till June 2012 when i bought an SSD. 711 days continues use. No bad sectors. Still use one of them for pagefile...
I bought a Seagate 7200.12 500GB 4 years ago and died few days ago...my first...after 22 years with HDDs...