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Old Anandtecher needs your help! my hard drive bonked during RAID install

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austonia

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Hi,

this morning i was going to set up my computer to RAID a couple of maxtor 60giggers. I have never done RAID before. I installed an Iwill Side-Raid66 into an MSI KT7 Pro2A. My system has been running perfect before, no conflicts. I was runing the second Maxtor drive as a plain slave before, no problems. I set second drive up to mirror when i left this morning. Came back after work and it looked locked up. Restarted my system and the 2nd drive would not be recognized. I reseated the cabling and then it caused both discs not to be recognized and the second one was making funny "tick-tick tick-tick tick-tick" sound like there was something wrong. I removed it from my sytem and luckily the master drive is ok. i tried this drive in my other computer and it also prevented the master drive from booting and made the same sounds! has anyone any idea what happened? did the RAID card ruin that drive!? Any ideas.....?

Thanks for your input!
Austin
 
Are they 7200rpm drives?
...and are they sitting just next to each other?

if so.... do you have proper cooling?

Two 7200rpm HDDs do generate some serious heat espacially when they're in a RAID setup where both of them are utilized at the same time.
 
Yes, disk is dead, most probably becouse of heat, like Haribo said.
My recomendation for that problem is Proware`s internal HDD case, for
3 hard driver, with two Sunon coolers.
I`ve had 3 IBM 20Gb 7200rpm disk in it, connected to 3ware IDE RAID
controller, and everything worked perfectly.
 
no no not a Heat issue, and this is why. I have the second hard drive actually near the bottom of the case to seperate from the one in the regular 3.5" bay, specifically for heat issues. I even have a small desk fan 2 feet away blowing on the drives the whoel time, with the side of the case off! these are 5400 rpm too.
 
Not looking good, i tries the drive even running as a stand alone master and it still makes only clicking noises and is not recognized. is this how hard drives die? never had one fail before. SHEEEESH, i was setting up the RAID just in case this happens and it looks like the Iwill RAID card did this? The drive never had a problem before.... but the same RAID card is running the Master hard drive just fine, it is in fact running the computer i am typing on..
 


<< ...and it looks like the Iwill RAID card did this? >>



sorry mate but the biggest piece of the "problem cake" is created by the user... and we're talking a huge piece 😉
 
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