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I purchased 4 WD20EARS drives on sale to create a more fault tolerant storage system for my home theater (movies, recorded television, music, etc) since my last external drive crashed losing all my data.
Now that I have the drives I read that pretty much of any drive out there the WD20EARS is the one NOT to use in a RAID. However, I have already purchased them. I am running into an issue but I do not see what all the posts say I will see which is the drive falling out of the array. What I see is is the following event in the system event log from time to time:
"Error Source: rr62xx, ID: 9, The device, \\Device\\Scsi\\rr62x1, did not respond within the timeout period"
I would have ignored this except about half the time this error appears in the log strange things happen to the server. I can no longer log on remotely or locally but remotely I can see the drives and access some file, even on the RAID drive. However, others when double clicked simply hang indefinitely. When I do try to log on locally I can type in credentials and then enter, screen then goes blank and stays there until I hard power the machine. When it boots back up there is nothing of note in the event log (as far as I can tell). No errors, warnings, just a few informational about different (seemingly unrelated) services starting or stopping such as web server stopping due to inactivity or Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider stopping, etc. The one exception is that within a few hours (or minutes) prior to me noticing the server has stopped responding is the above error with the rr62xx error.
I cannot seem to recreate the error when I want to but it does seem to happen when there is a lot of file processing such as file copies or unzipping. My question is whether or not the drives are the issue here or if there may be a driver issue for the rr622 card. I used it shortly on another machine in the exact same drive config with no issues on a Windows 7 32 bit OS while now it is on a Windows 7 64 bit OS but I also hit the drive a lot more now so I cannot say it is the driver either. I am considering replacing all 4 drives and selling these but I would like to know that the drive are really the problem. Any debugging advice or similar issues out there?
Current server:
Dell T110
8GB non-ecc ram
Highpoint RocketRaid 622 raid card
4 WD20EARS 2TB drives
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Now that I have the drives I read that pretty much of any drive out there the WD20EARS is the one NOT to use in a RAID. However, I have already purchased them. I am running into an issue but I do not see what all the posts say I will see which is the drive falling out of the array. What I see is is the following event in the system event log from time to time:
"Error Source: rr62xx, ID: 9, The device, \\Device\\Scsi\\rr62x1, did not respond within the timeout period"
I would have ignored this except about half the time this error appears in the log strange things happen to the server. I can no longer log on remotely or locally but remotely I can see the drives and access some file, even on the RAID drive. However, others when double clicked simply hang indefinitely. When I do try to log on locally I can type in credentials and then enter, screen then goes blank and stays there until I hard power the machine. When it boots back up there is nothing of note in the event log (as far as I can tell). No errors, warnings, just a few informational about different (seemingly unrelated) services starting or stopping such as web server stopping due to inactivity or Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider stopping, etc. The one exception is that within a few hours (or minutes) prior to me noticing the server has stopped responding is the above error with the rr62xx error.
I cannot seem to recreate the error when I want to but it does seem to happen when there is a lot of file processing such as file copies or unzipping. My question is whether or not the drives are the issue here or if there may be a driver issue for the rr622 card. I used it shortly on another machine in the exact same drive config with no issues on a Windows 7 32 bit OS while now it is on a Windows 7 64 bit OS but I also hit the drive a lot more now so I cannot say it is the driver either. I am considering replacing all 4 drives and selling these but I would like to know that the drive are really the problem. Any debugging advice or similar issues out there?
Current server:
Dell T110
8GB non-ecc ram
Highpoint RocketRaid 622 raid card
4 WD20EARS 2TB drives
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
R = My setup worked, here's what I did, hopefully it helps.