That Wasn't a Crash of Cymbals
Dec. 3rd, 2006 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWhen I built the studio computer, one of the mirrored 120 GB Western Digital Caviar drives failed early on. I swapped it for a new one under warranty. The second drive may or may not still be under warranty -- I'd have to check -- but it appears to have failed. Now the good news is that the drive is mirrored, so I shouldn't have lost any data. We'll see if that's actually true, as the drive is being a bit intermittent and the system wants to rebuild the array, so I'm letting it take a run at it.
The problem is that I really need an eSATA port to connect my external mirrored hard drive box to and the eSATA card that I bought -- apparently all of them, actually -- is incompatible with the Promise Technology RAID support on the motherboard. But I went online and just found a card with one eSATA and three internal SATA ports and RAID support. So I've ordered that card from one supplier and two new 400 GB SATA drives from Fry's (with a five year warranty). Total cost with expedited shipping is less than $400, which seems pretty cheap right now, given that the computer that I'm mixing on could start kicking its little legs in the air at any moment.
This does mean that I won't be uploading MP3s for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catalana to listen to tonight (or when she gets back from Germany). *sigh*
The problem is that I really need an eSATA port to connect my external mirrored hard drive box to and the eSATA card that I bought -- apparently all of them, actually -- is incompatible with the Promise Technology RAID support on the motherboard. But I went online and just found a card with one eSATA and three internal SATA ports and RAID support. So I've ordered that card from one supplier and two new 400 GB SATA drives from Fry's (with a five year warranty). Total cost with expedited shipping is less than $400, which seems pretty cheap right now, given that the computer that I'm mixing on could start kicking its little legs in the air at any moment.
This does mean that I won't be uploading MP3s for
catalana to listen to tonight (or when she gets back from Germany). *sigh*
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Date: 2006-12-04 03:03 pm (UTC)Seagate, right? I have not heard great things about SATA WD drives in a server in the past year or so...
WD used to be a very good drive, but when they changed a few years ago to a 1 year warrantee, I started avoiding the brand.
I think Hitachi has a 3 year warrantee on their drives.
Harold
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Date: 2006-12-04 06:30 pm (UTC)Although it's probably the case that trying to get them to honor the warranty isn't worth the time I'd spend on it. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-12-05 03:21 am (UTC)That's what I have been using extra 20gig hard drives for these days.
Harold