Raptor Said "SeeYa", Video encoding the culprit?

[resinboy]

hi everyone: I was really hoping I wouldn't be one of the people posting here they lost their raid 0 array, but I did, as well as 1 of the drives
Fortunately I am a back-up freak, so all is not lost. I was using 2 Raptors, about a month old, and started a DVD encoding session before going to bed last night.
Woke up to a BSOD- rebooted, and my raid bios said that one of the drives was damaged, or had an error ( something to that effect).
Went to the MB bios, and the faulty drive was no longer listed as a WD36.... , but was now listed as a WD200BB (WTF), and drive capacity was listed as -0- MB. Broke the array, tried fdisk, partition magic, etc, and all said the drive was not there. MB bios, during POST, said there was no fixed disc attached. Swapped SATA ports, as well as cables, same thing, so RMA time.
I had the pci bus locked at 33, so I was running the drives in spec. Now I am afraid to do any encoding after I get the new drive. Any reason this happened, other than a faulty drive?
(all 3 drives in my box have a 120 mm fan blowing directly through/ on them).

 

[sandorski]

2 words----Western Digital

 

[mechBgon]

Excuse my ignorance, but wouldn't two standalone drives be better for video encoding anyway? One source, one target?

 

[Technonut]

I had a Raptor fly south on me a while back. Now after a month, the replacement (New) just gave me the click... click... click death cry. :disgust: Both times running RAID0. Next time I will just run separate drives.. they are fast enough.

 

[Maiora]

Damn hate to see a drive go off on a tangent like that.

Good thing you're backin' up!

As mech said, you're definitely better off with dedicated source and target disks! Preferably on different channels to boot.

Maiora

 

[Goosemaster]

SCSI

 

[Jeff7]

It wasn't the encoding itself that destroyed the drive. It was just dying, and you happened to be doing encoding at the time. Careful with that kind of thinking - you probably also had other stuff running, like maybe Motherboard Monitor, antivirus software...and heck, the Windows OS itself. I'm sure none of them caused the death either.
RMA time I guess. I must say, it is kind of disconcerting though to hear of these new drives failing - they were just introduced this year weren't they?

 

[nanyangview]

raptor suck camel's ball..WD is west-death...sh*ttties HD manufacturer ever.

I almost threw my $ for a rapsh*T when i got a sweeet deal on a Cheetah 15.3K 73GB SCSI HD..which of course will eat any HD out there for lunch.

 

[HappyPuppy]

It wasn't too long ago everybody was bagging on IBM drives and bragging on WD. At the time I didn't disagree with the criticism directed towards IBM, much of it was justified. I triend to point out that WD's historical reliability hadn't been that great either, but nobody wanted to listen. I think every manufacturer gets runs or models of drives that the product of faulty engineering.

The only safeguard any of us has is backup.

 

[eriqesque]

Originally posted by: nanyangview
raptor suck camel's ball..WD is west-death...sh*ttties HD manufacturer ever.

I almost threw my $ for a rapsh*T when i got a sweeet deal on a Cheetah 15.3K 73GB SCSI HD..which of course will eat any HD out there for lunch.

How old are you 5 maybe 6?
You sure talk and make about as much sense as one.
I have read several of your posts and most of the time you are obnoxious rude inconsiderate and just plain stupid.
I suggest if you have nothing more to contribute than this garbage SHUT THE F_ _ _ UP.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: nanyangview
raptor suck camel's ball..WD is west-death...sh*ttties HD manufacturer ever.

I almost threw my $ for a rapsh*T when i got a sweeet deal on a Cheetah 15.3K 73GB SCSI HD..which of course will eat any HD out there for lunch.

i have always used WD exclusively, not one drive went bad on me

 

[resinboy]

I used to hate WD in the past, but have been watching their track record for a while- seemed they had gotten better.

BTW, I did have a destination drive: I have an 80 gig storage drive I use for DIVX rips.
This is the first drive I have ever had just crap out on me in 5 years of building my own stuff- guess I've been lucky. This thing gave me no indications of a problem whatsoever.
(I used to run 10K scsi LVD drives, but I got so tired of the noise, I gave them up).

 

[Electrode]

In all the years I've been using WD drives almost exclusively, I've only had 1 die on me: a 6 GB drive that died after about 2 weeks of SMART errors.

 

[magomago]

I had a 4 gig WD die on me back in 1998 and then I went right ahead and got a 20 gig Maxtor....and man was it SILENT.

I was so used to hearing machine gun sounds that when the PC boot up and there was no sound from the HDD I was scared it was broken!

Now though I've been using a 80gig WDSE since last november and its survived 2 power failures (the power in my town cut off the same day as New York's...and I'm in So Cal ) and countless of "My parents pushing the off button rather than turning it off" while the pc was downloading, or encoding, or whatever.

So in my book WD has redeemed itself...

but it is a bit unerving to see so many people with raid0 arrays FUBARING...especially when you have soo many people argue that RAID0 is good...

 

[Tab]

I think WD has shown its relialbity. After all this is their first above 7,200 RPM HD... I actually dropped my WD several times and works THANK GOD

 

[DrHiggy]

Sorry to hear of the Raptor suffering the big one!

However, it is my understanding that the Raptor drives are considered highly reliable with a better warranty and greater MTBF as they are enterprise level drives.

Also, some formidable and reliable sources (storagereview.com among others) mention solid performance and reliability with the Raptors. Now granted, that's not a 100% guarantee, and it sounds like this particular drive (and a couple others out there) clearly went kaput! I think the majority of folks are having the opposite experience.

I hope I stay one of those!

 

[chocoruacal]

LMAO...so many brainless fanboys. I personally have 10+ drives right now....6 WD and 4 Maxtor. I buy whatever is cheapest per gig at the time. All 7200 RPM...all less than 2 years old. I would bet a weeks pay that you couldn't tell the difference between them based on heat or noise. I have no idea which drive is which till I open the box up I've also had drives fail from ALL the major manufacts....WD, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, etc. Shite happens...a drive can fail after 2 minutes, or 2 years for absolutely no reason.