- Oct 28, 2010
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Hello Everyone,
I'll start off saying i have tons of storage on my system. everything had been great for many years (well since i built the pc in 2011 old but still extremely viable). I've been paranoid about loosing data for ages when i had hard drives fail on me so a lot of my stuff gets backed up at multiple places.
while i've changed the arrangement of my hard drives I currently have 8 hard drives and two optical drives (not counting external optical drives).
anyways about a month ago 12-7-16 I had a hard drive fail. no problem and lucky enough it was one i had gotten an extended warranty on so even though bought in 2012 i still had a warranty till 2017, so i set up the replacement. spent a week salvaging data off the drive because oddly enough that drive was not being backed up anywhere. long story short i managed to get everything backed up to a drive with space and now my whole systems hard drives was red (minus the os drive) for low space.
so what happens before i get the replacement drive.
the drive i use to backup stuff fails and it was new in 2016 but i managed to scrape all the data off using all my current existing space.
that was two hard drives in less than a month, it had been years since I had had a hard drive crash, most of my drives (except the new and replacements) are from 2010-2012 in age but the last failed drive was only 7 months old when it failed. no warning either but seagates own tools failed it at every test.
so get that replacement in and bought a couple of pc upgrades to make my motherboard more future proof. bought:
4 port sata 3 card its fitted into a pcie*16 slot: bought this to remove two sata3 drives off of a sata 2 ports on the motherboard.
5 or 7 port usb 3.0 pciex1 card to add more usb 3 slots: had thought the cases ubs 3 cable went bad but it appears one of hte motherboards usb 3 slots on the back don't work since now plugged into the card my front usb 3 works (need to buy a power cable for it just to have it connected).
so with the new stuff and that i decided i'll more or less remove most of the components from the case and give it a really good cleaning had been too long since its last cleaning from dust.
get everything done and reconnected (and i always hate this part) moment of truth and power one and half of my drives are missing. a bunch of trial and error and looking stuff up i resolve the issues but possibly caused a prolbem.
i have two 2tb wd hard drives that was set up as a raid 1 setup. well when I plugged everything back in i didn't realize the raid was specific to sata ports on the motherboard so they was plugged in at a different spot. once realized and corrected everything seemed to be ok except i noticed on bootups the raid was degraded. it appears one drive was no longer working right. i could in the bios/raid setup attempt to rebuild but it would rebuild but always fail at 0% after a few minutes. so i tried to copy everything off the drive in windows it went fairly well but every so often 15 mins or so the drive would no longer be recognized and i'd have to reboot. well i eventually gave up today on coping the stuff off i mean afterall its all backed up already i just wanted to preserve my structures on the disk but it got to be more of a problem than it was worth.
so back into the raid setup got the drives set back up now everything is function-able.
everything is probably just fine but i am a paranoid person. sort of like when my vehicle had issues and repair for a while i baby it until i just get used to it working again.
as i being paranoid or should be worried? LIke i said i had used this for a long time no problems them bamb this last month has killed me.
here's my main setup
motherboard: asus p8p67 deluxe version 3
2 sata 3/raid
2 sata 3
4 sata 2
16gigs gskill ram
intel 2600k sandybridge cpu (love this cpu)
7 port usb 3 pciex1 card (new hardware) seems to be working
4 port sata 3 pcie card (looks like a x1 but the manual says x4 but its in my 3rd pciex16 slot)
asus radeon hd 7750 pciex16 in the first slot
again I've changed my hard drive layout i had two on the top cases docking stations now its down to 1 because it was not being recognized inside the pc (appears a bad sata cable)
drive information
2 western digital 2tb hard drives in raid 1: unfortunately these are sata 2 drives instead of 3 so kinda wasting two sata 3 slots with these but those are the motherboards raid slots.
1 ssd pny 240gig hard drive in a sata 3 slot this drive just contains the os and programs
2 3tb seagate drives attached to the new 4 port sata 3 card
1 4tb seagate in the docking station also attached to the sata 3 card
ASUS BW-12B1LT [Optical drive]
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F [Optical drive]
both attached to the motherboards sata 2 ports
2tb seagate attached via usb 3.0 hard drive enclosure
5tb seagate external backup drive plus (don't like their software hate it).
right now everything seems to be working right, recouping everything that was on the raid drives back and after half and hour have not have to reboot or anything so i think thats stable.
power supply: ultra 750watt modular
i think i am just being paranoid the raid issue was caused by me plugging them into a non raid port. but do i have to many hard drives I am not a gamer so i don't use a lot of power i figure all the hard drives use the most. i have another 4tb drive coming but the two externals will start to become non always on drives only having them on as needed for stuff/ deletions and updates.
looking at a new computer case was toying with building my own but i am just going for a new one.
oh on top of the hard drives i've had 3 of the cases fans fail in the last few months too. The front intake failed (not sure when as its just missing), two months ago the large 230mm exhaust fan failed and yesterday the 120mm rear exhaust fan failed. the cpu fan works as does the power supplies and video cards. I have a new 230mm fan i installed yesterday and i have two 120mm fans coming tomorrow for the front and rear of the case.
sorry for the book its a bad habit.
ryan
I'll start off saying i have tons of storage on my system. everything had been great for many years (well since i built the pc in 2011 old but still extremely viable). I've been paranoid about loosing data for ages when i had hard drives fail on me so a lot of my stuff gets backed up at multiple places.
while i've changed the arrangement of my hard drives I currently have 8 hard drives and two optical drives (not counting external optical drives).
anyways about a month ago 12-7-16 I had a hard drive fail. no problem and lucky enough it was one i had gotten an extended warranty on so even though bought in 2012 i still had a warranty till 2017, so i set up the replacement. spent a week salvaging data off the drive because oddly enough that drive was not being backed up anywhere. long story short i managed to get everything backed up to a drive with space and now my whole systems hard drives was red (minus the os drive) for low space.
so what happens before i get the replacement drive.
the drive i use to backup stuff fails and it was new in 2016 but i managed to scrape all the data off using all my current existing space.
that was two hard drives in less than a month, it had been years since I had had a hard drive crash, most of my drives (except the new and replacements) are from 2010-2012 in age but the last failed drive was only 7 months old when it failed. no warning either but seagates own tools failed it at every test.
so get that replacement in and bought a couple of pc upgrades to make my motherboard more future proof. bought:
4 port sata 3 card its fitted into a pcie*16 slot: bought this to remove two sata3 drives off of a sata 2 ports on the motherboard.
5 or 7 port usb 3.0 pciex1 card to add more usb 3 slots: had thought the cases ubs 3 cable went bad but it appears one of hte motherboards usb 3 slots on the back don't work since now plugged into the card my front usb 3 works (need to buy a power cable for it just to have it connected).
so with the new stuff and that i decided i'll more or less remove most of the components from the case and give it a really good cleaning had been too long since its last cleaning from dust.
get everything done and reconnected (and i always hate this part) moment of truth and power one and half of my drives are missing. a bunch of trial and error and looking stuff up i resolve the issues but possibly caused a prolbem.
i have two 2tb wd hard drives that was set up as a raid 1 setup. well when I plugged everything back in i didn't realize the raid was specific to sata ports on the motherboard so they was plugged in at a different spot. once realized and corrected everything seemed to be ok except i noticed on bootups the raid was degraded. it appears one drive was no longer working right. i could in the bios/raid setup attempt to rebuild but it would rebuild but always fail at 0% after a few minutes. so i tried to copy everything off the drive in windows it went fairly well but every so often 15 mins or so the drive would no longer be recognized and i'd have to reboot. well i eventually gave up today on coping the stuff off i mean afterall its all backed up already i just wanted to preserve my structures on the disk but it got to be more of a problem than it was worth.
so back into the raid setup got the drives set back up now everything is function-able.
everything is probably just fine but i am a paranoid person. sort of like when my vehicle had issues and repair for a while i baby it until i just get used to it working again.
as i being paranoid or should be worried? LIke i said i had used this for a long time no problems them bamb this last month has killed me.
here's my main setup
motherboard: asus p8p67 deluxe version 3
2 sata 3/raid
2 sata 3
4 sata 2
16gigs gskill ram
intel 2600k sandybridge cpu (love this cpu)
7 port usb 3 pciex1 card (new hardware) seems to be working
4 port sata 3 pcie card (looks like a x1 but the manual says x4 but its in my 3rd pciex16 slot)
asus radeon hd 7750 pciex16 in the first slot
again I've changed my hard drive layout i had two on the top cases docking stations now its down to 1 because it was not being recognized inside the pc (appears a bad sata cable)
drive information
2 western digital 2tb hard drives in raid 1: unfortunately these are sata 2 drives instead of 3 so kinda wasting two sata 3 slots with these but those are the motherboards raid slots.
1 ssd pny 240gig hard drive in a sata 3 slot this drive just contains the os and programs
2 3tb seagate drives attached to the new 4 port sata 3 card
1 4tb seagate in the docking station also attached to the sata 3 card
ASUS BW-12B1LT [Optical drive]
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223F [Optical drive]
both attached to the motherboards sata 2 ports
2tb seagate attached via usb 3.0 hard drive enclosure
5tb seagate external backup drive plus (don't like their software hate it).
right now everything seems to be working right, recouping everything that was on the raid drives back and after half and hour have not have to reboot or anything so i think thats stable.
power supply: ultra 750watt modular
i think i am just being paranoid the raid issue was caused by me plugging them into a non raid port. but do i have to many hard drives I am not a gamer so i don't use a lot of power i figure all the hard drives use the most. i have another 4tb drive coming but the two externals will start to become non always on drives only having them on as needed for stuff/ deletions and updates.
looking at a new computer case was toying with building my own but i am just going for a new one.
oh on top of the hard drives i've had 3 of the cases fans fail in the last few months too. The front intake failed (not sure when as its just missing), two months ago the large 230mm exhaust fan failed and yesterday the 120mm rear exhaust fan failed. the cpu fan works as does the power supplies and video cards. I have a new 230mm fan i installed yesterday and i have two 120mm fans coming tomorrow for the front and rear of the case.
sorry for the book its a bad habit.
ryan
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