Important Computer Help.

Last Night my ONE part of my RAID harddrive failed and looks like it is broken

and i don't really want to send it back to dell for repair untill I have at least hit 80

so what i need to know on the scale of one to ten.One being it is due to brake down any second and 10 being it will easily last a week or so. Can i get away with playing with with 1 half or the drive.

I would be grateful of a quick responce.

Muriele

what type of raid it is ?

and sorry, i dint understand, it is already broken, or you get s.m.a.r.t. or other form of monitoring warnings about it ?

if it is a hardware failure it could go down in any minute. or last 1 year, you canot really tell.

if i have important data on the raid, i would buy another harddisk, and make backup on it, i dont really trust services to keep/recover my data.

Stripped Raid 0

And its a warning telling me a error happened.

Muriele wrote:

Last Night my ONE part of my RAID harddrive failed and looks like it is broken

and i don't really want to send it back to dell for repair untill I have at least hit 80

so what i need to know on the scale of one to ten.One being it is due to brake down any second and 10 being it will easily last a week or so. Can i get away with playing with with 1 half or the drive.

I would be grateful of a quick responce.

Muriele

How old are the drives? In case that age was the reason, that the first one broke, probably the second will in the next weeks too.


Mathison

Raid 0 = striped = zero redundency

Basicly its quickly backup time ( if you have not lost everything already )

I run a 4 X 80 gig raptor's in raid 0 myself mainly for performance reasons

If one drive goes your pretty boned and as Mathison says if ones gone the others normaly are not far behind unless you were realy unlucky and got a duff drive.

Also depends how many drives you have in the array. With one down you can probaly limp along on the one / one's you got left but its always best to plan for the worst realy

Hey

There is a good chance you'll be able to use that pc for a a couple of weeks. However this is just based on a bit of experience and a lot of guess work from what details you've given. There is no real answer - It could break tonight or run for weeks with the error message. It ain't going to get better though and if you're sending bits back to Dell you can't really avoid the downtime.

Your main priority is to try n save anything you don't want to loose if you can at this point. Once you have backed that all up, happy gaming for a bit!

The computer is under wareenty its less then a year old

Muriele wrote:

The computer is under wareenty its less then a year old
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i need to know on the scale of one to ten

In that case, I would say ten.

Mathison

hmmm could just be a bad sector or something simalare

personaly I would say start the backups , get a few scans going once the backups are done and see what it finds.

But you might get away with limping along for a week or two but I would not leave it to long dell tech support can be an arse to deal with and better to get it over with sooner rather than later.

Dell have fixed the issue it seems just had a error that self cleared just needed to mark as normal then reboot..ty all for advice.

good to hear


..... but with passed experiences with dell I would still do the backup and scans anyway it will never hurt to be on the safe side.