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| Thread ID: 115512 | 2011-01-21 09:12:00 | Well folks, I have yet another RAID Volume failure | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 1171463 | 2011-01-22 06:07:00 | I read recently on here, someone saying that WD black had quite high failure rates That would be ME :) I was just going to post that that "may" be a contributing factor. PCTek posted a report not so long ago, the WD Blacks had the highest failure rates. So far I have had 3 out of four new drives fail over a 6 month period - all customers PC's. Changed them to blues,and no more problems. Then again this may not be the problem , but from your original post -- Notice a "trend" here:) First was an OS disk, replaced under warranty very early in the piece. The second several months later, was an OS disk which recovered and rebuilt itself under strange circumstances even though it had been reported as faulty by the Matrix Manager. This disk is still in use. Could be a clue?? Third was during the New Year break, another OS disk, not the same one as above and a new disk was installed. |
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| 1171464 | 2011-01-25 09:58:00 | And it looks like most people go to device manager (after extracting the drivers), then go to the folder / inf file (to either update / downgrade the drivers). With no probs at all Went today to swap the disk for a new one U/G and discussed the problem with a tech. He seemed to be unaware of the RAID driver issues but got the gist of the problem and agreed that four separate WD640 failures inside of 8-9 months was unlikely. He said all I have to do is download the new driver file, which he said would be an exe and just run it from the download folder. I queried whether this might upset the running RAID array but he didn't seem to be very confident about that. I wasn't all that comfortable with that either, so I did some more research and found these Posts 13 & 22 (communities.intel.com) in particular which indicate firstly that it is a driver problem, not the RAID manager, and secondly that it is particularly bad with WD Caviar Black WD640AAL disks which is exactly what I have! In fact the whole thread was very interesting and quite enlightening in an uncomfortable sort of way. I'll post again once I've digested the instructions etc and extracted the important steps and get an opinion or two before I commit. I need to make images of OS and data disks as well before I do anything drastic. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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