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It was a loud whine, the drives were spinning as fast as they could, then a loud constant click for about 5 times then it crashed, I put a fan inbetween the drives sitting on the lower driver, defragged and I'm crash free for 2 days now, so that might have been the problem, although they didn't feel hot I don't know much about hard drive temp's, dot dot dot.
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hmm its doing it again, need more adice.
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Backup your data. Imo your HDD(s) face imminent failure.
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I think you need to break your RAID array (sorry) and recertify the drives.
No way both drives are failing at the same time, so you need to isolate the bad one.
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They could both be failing if the package was used for basketball practice.Originally Posted by clocker
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break my raid array, there has to be a program that can read them as seperate drives for a test...
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Did you try checking or reseting your BIOS settings?
I don't know if there's a jumper on the back of a SATA drive, but I know incorrect jumper placement for IDE devices causes a "major" LAG during post and can also prevent windows from booting.
Did you try different cables?
I'm pretty sure you don't need to run a fan on those drives, because all hardrives are built to run without an external fan on it.
I have a 300GB External Hardrive without any fans and it has never shut-off due to overheating.
Last edited by Wolfmight; 01-08-2006 at 04:51 AM.
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Were you RAID 1-maybe, RAID 0- I don't think so.
Edit: The WD Diagnostics will NOT work on RAID arrays...I just tried.
In order to test, the drive must be listed as a "physical drive" but RAID arrays are only displayed as "logical drives" and are untestable.
Life is a bitch.
No, SATA drives are not jumpered as they cannot be daisychained like IDE drives, so there is no "master-slave" designation to worry about.
Last edited by clocker; 01-08-2006 at 04:43 PM.
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Ok, status update, shit has gotten worse, im racing the clock to burn this new xp borg dvd, im gonna format back to my old 120 gig drive, format the raid array and run wd tools, im working now, ill report back asap, everyone pray for it not to be hd failure.
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Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WDC WD360GD-00FNA0
Serial Number: WD-WMAH91224997
Firmware Number: 530.K653
Drive Type: SATA
Capacity: 37.02 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 23:33:03, January 11, 2006
Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WDC WD360GD-00FNA0
Serial Number: WD-WMAH91401062
Firmware Number: 530.K653
Drive Type: SATA
Capacity: 37.02 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: PASS
Test Time: 23:46:02, January 11, 2006
thats what it said, for the first drive it said it had bad sectors but repaired them though.
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