Config: 8 Maxtor DiamondMax 160G drives, model # 4R160l0, all mounted in hot swap drive sleds.
3Ware Escalade model 7810.
Asus P2B-D, 512M PC133, dual PII 400's. Antec TruePower 400W power supply.
The drives are in a RAID5 configuration, with one drive a hot spare, for a total Windows formatted size of 916G.
Using the drive cables supplied with the 7810, so shouldn't be any problem with crap cables or anything like that.
I have had to RMA at least 12 of these damn drives in a 6 month period. Last Tuesday, 2 drives died. At the same time. So I do the familiar advance RMA, get the two replacements, slap them in the rig, and rebuild the array. Tonight I go down to check it, and one of the friggin replacements has died. Less than 24 hours in the machine, and it's shot. This isn't the first time it's happened like this, either.
Anyone else have any problems with anything like this? Or any suggestions for me? The drives are all still under warranty until sometime in 2005, so I don't really mind the hassle, but I know dman well once the warranty is out, drives are going to fail left and right, and I'm going to be out about $1000 in hard drives.
Could it be a fault with the RAID card itself, possibly?
Going nutz here, thanks!
3Ware Escalade model 7810.
Asus P2B-D, 512M PC133, dual PII 400's. Antec TruePower 400W power supply.
The drives are in a RAID5 configuration, with one drive a hot spare, for a total Windows formatted size of 916G.
Using the drive cables supplied with the 7810, so shouldn't be any problem with crap cables or anything like that.
I have had to RMA at least 12 of these damn drives in a 6 month period. Last Tuesday, 2 drives died. At the same time. So I do the familiar advance RMA, get the two replacements, slap them in the rig, and rebuild the array. Tonight I go down to check it, and one of the friggin replacements has died. Less than 24 hours in the machine, and it's shot. This isn't the first time it's happened like this, either.
Anyone else have any problems with anything like this? Or any suggestions for me? The drives are all still under warranty until sometime in 2005, so I don't really mind the hassle, but I know dman well once the warranty is out, drives are going to fail left and right, and I'm going to be out about $1000 in hard drives.
Could it be a fault with the RAID card itself, possibly?
Going nutz here, thanks!