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mesogreat

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I did something real dumb. While trying to figure out why one of my raptures stopped working I fried a second one. Come to find out I had a busted conector on the first one. I was going to try the freezing trick on that one since it still has some life in it. It makes sounds just doesn't read come up on the pc. The one I fried is dead as a door nail though =( I have two questions. One is since I messed with the jumpers while messing around with the 74gb raptors I don't know now how to make one a master and one a sllave. It's not ike the slower drivers that usualy say slave/master on the jumper setting or in the manual. The raptorrs say other stuff. ike opt 1 opt 2... My other question is i'm not spending another 250$ on raptor drives. I heard you can't just throw iin a 7200rpm drive with the 10000 ones. Is there a way around that. I would like to get about a TB worth of disk space and not looking to cash out my stock for a bunch of raptors =D
 
You've confused me on a few things.

For starters, all Raptor hard drives use the SATA interface, not IDE -- so there's no need to use jumpers to establish Master/Slave drives since each HDD operates on its own separate channel.

(I believe that) you can't mix 10K RPM and 7200 RPM hard drives in a RAID configuration. If you're running the 10K RPM and the 7200 RPM hard drives as independent drives, you shouldn't have any problem with them.

If you need a new hard drive pronto, the new hard drives based on the 320GB drive platters perform just as well as your 74GB Raptor drives (if not better) for a fraction of the Raptor's price. Consider getting a 320GB or 640GB hard drive from Samsung, Seagate, or Western Digital. (As a warning, though, Western Digital still sells the single-platter 320GB drives alongside the slower two-platter models.)

But I digress... so we could help you a bit better...

- What does the rest of your system look like?
- Do you have your Raptor hard drives in a RAID configuration?
- Did you let the other Raptor drive thaw completely (like, for a week) before using it again? (Hell, why did you freeze it in the first place?)
 
That's it? You're just going to buy a new drive and be done with it?

Based on what you've asked us, I figured that you have more drives in your setup than just the two Raptors.
 
I actually had three raptors two 74's and a 150. The 150 was the one that started it all. That was my gaming drive, Now because the sata connector broke all it does is click. The other one is dead with no hope. So my plan is to now just by a big fat 7200 rpm drive tomorrow.
 
I'm sure WD could repair that drive for you, whether or not its under warranty.
 
Yeah from what I saw in most cases you can jus switch the boards. Hmm.... I should look into that. It may be worth it for me to try.
 
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