Looks like I've got a failing drive. It's a TS-HTGL/R5 Anyone know what drive I should buy, and is it worth it, or is it just going to have another one fail soonish? TIA -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
I would imagine they chuck a variety of drives at it. You'll have to be a bit more specific on the HDD Make and Model Number.
Any SATA drive should do, I would buy a Seagate 7200.12 personally. You didn't say the capacity but you should be able to buy a bigger capacity and it'll just not use the extra, IYSWIM. I wouldn't start suspecting there's an underlying problem behind it unless you get another failure or if things seem to be running fairly hot. This might be helpful, I guess: http://www.bl0g.co.uk/buffalo-terastation-1tb-faulty-drive-failure-on-raid-5.html
Mine's a pro. I managed to get to the interface (I'm in Bulgaria ATM) It's a WD unit, and can be had from ebuyer for the princely sum of £30. It also failed to boot with a 'Could not load kernel error' I wonder if it just threw its toys cos of a power failure. I'm tempted to buy a spare as a safeguard, though. Thanks -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Managed to get to the web interface and track it down. Cheers -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Catman spoke: I had exactly that after a power outage! - a telnet session and a default reset cured it, including removing the faulty drive issue. Sadly it lost everything on it in the re-build, but it has behaved faultlessly since then. -- Rob_P UKRM(at)indqualtec.co.uk uppercase(d) BBIWYMC#1 BOG#11? MRO#31 IBCDBBB#1(kotl) FJ1200, CCM130 Benelli Cabriolet (gone) Looks like Rab C Nesbit.
That's hardly faultless Good job I have backup, will watch with interest. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
30 more today, after an unplanned power down. New drive en route from Ebuyer.... Fix on Friday when I get back I guess. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
It's already RAID 5 -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Wonderful generalisation. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Yes quite! Utterly useless advice and therefor entirely appropriate. I had Hitachi in to see us last week. Largest company in Japan, well I didn't know that. Vertical Open MRI scanners you can walk a horse through, well I never!
Well, this is UKRM Generally I would by Hitachi, in fact, but I'm getting a WD to match all the rest Them racehorses are worth a bob or two innit. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. #www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (who are the part of the group that look after all things storage) are based at the Swamp in Havant - the old IBM building. Nice bunch of people - and although Frasers comment is a bit of a generalisation, I can back it up by saying their AFR rate is fantastic and class leading - based on using around 100,000 drives a year for the last few years.
Yeah it was. But of the last 6 WDs I've bought 5 have failed within 12 months. A client of mine uses Hitachi drives for mobile security video recording on buses. They tested every drive you can name and only Hitachi passed. Since hearing that I've changed to Hitachi and had no problems. YMMV. Fraser
