Question RAID 0 One HDD Keeps Dissapearing

[seanycarey]

Hi! I put two extra 1tb HDD's I had in a raid 0. After many months I had no problem, but now whenever I launch it trys to go into auto-repair. When I finally manage to boot it says one of my harddrives (not both) is now missing. (Note: Both WD Blue 1TB, not exact same model though. HAD NO PROBLEMS WITH THIS RAID UNTIL NOW.) I unplug and replug the sata on the missing HDD, works perfectly fine. I did this, then when I tried to redo my steam folder steam crashed the second I clicked on the drive in steam settings. I will be playing a game and my whole computer will freeze, not even a blue screen or sound. Starting to get annoying and I REALLY don't wanna get 1.8 TB of games redownloaded. I HAVE just swapped the sata cable so I will let you know if this happens again one one or both of the harddrives. (Swapped between the two.)

 

[USAFRet]

A RAID 0 should never ever be run without a really good backup routine.

 

[seanycarey]

A RAID 0 should never ever be run without a really good backup routine.

It's fine. Lost nothing but games on it, looks like the older hard drive has reached its' limit. I got the damn thing for free, I would never run RAID 0 if it were a server or something,

 

[seanycarey]

From now on I am doing 1 hard drive (avoid issues AND cuz I need to but a new HDD tomorrow, but I need to start reinstalling my steam library).