Michael D. Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Well, I had gone nearly 14 years without ever having a HDD fail on me, not once ever. I had a HDD fail on me about 4 months ago so I decided to go ahead and not risk anything - and go for Raid5 with three brand new HDDs. Well 4 months later I have one HDD drive fail and I send it off under warranty for free to get a replacement drive, no big deal my data is safe with Raid5 what are the chances of two drives failing right? Well I put the new drive in tonight and I'm getting ready to rebuild my Raid5 array when my raid controller notifies that yet another drive has failed. I ran the diagnostics and the drive is in fact failing. Needless to say I had to throw in an extra drive I had to get back up and operational however I have lost all of the data that was stored on the array, I put quite a bit on it due to the redundancy of Raid5 and the fact that I had never personally had a HDD failure until only a few months ago. I checked the drives and the highest temps they had *ever* seen was 40c which is good for HDDs. They are mounted right in front of a fan in the front of the system that pushes cool air across them. This is not anything that affects MDDHosting in any way, but I felt the need to rant and get some of this off of my chest. Ugggh, data loss sucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Awww * hugs* I had a hard drive die on me over a year ago so I keep every thing back up on to dvds and cds. Hope you are able to at least get some of the data back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Awww * hugs* I had a hard drive die on me over a year ago so I keep every thing back up on to dvds and cds. Hope you are able to at least get some of the data back.Nope, it's all gone. The Raid5 *WAS* the backup sadly enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Hope it was not too important of info.Wow 2 TB and I still have not been able to fill up my 200gb hard drive I got a long time ago.geeks.com does have a TB hard drive on sale I am thinking about buying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Hope it was not too important of info.Wow 2 TB and I still have not been able to fill up my 200gb hard drive I got a long time ago.geeks.com does have a TB hard drive on sale I am thinking about buying.Heh, in total I've lost 2tb of actual data. Ugghhhhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 wow thats wow I can not even imagine that much. I am wondering what you had that would take up that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 wow thats wow I can not even imagine that much. I am wondering what you had that would take up that much.Family photos and videos, various backups for different servers and systems, compiled versions and source to various programs I have written among many many other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blind Bandit Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Family photos and videos, various backups for different servers and systems, compiled versions and source to various programs I have written among many many other things. Mike its a bummer you had such bad luck. *hugs* I've had an HDD fail and it sucked to put it lightly. Good luck and I hope you get better luck soon. I know sometimes it feels like bad luck just sticks to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael D. Posted October 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 I guess it's a good thing that I have hard copies of all of my software and I know where it's all at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunnykins Posted October 2, 2008 Report Share Posted October 2, 2008 Glad it was not a total loss. Hugs again for all that was lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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