Seems like folks here have a lot of hard drive problems, mine are very old and never a glitch. I did kick a drive when it was running once and it crashed (long story), since that was a 100 MEGAbyte drive so you can tell how long ago that was.
And then there are all you people saying your RAID crashed. ????? Just what type of RAID are folks on the list using? Raid zero is asking for it, one better have a great back up scheme. Raid-1 or raid-10 should have all the data on the other drives for a restore. Raid-5 should be fine unless more than one drive goes at the same time. Of course I suppose that RAID has become a buzz word and many people are calling JBOD (just-a-bunch-of-drives, what I currently running) RAID which it is not. Anyway anyone who needs a computer tech's help should not be running anything more complicated than raid-1 (mirrored drives). Anyhow, as I am soon going to be setting up a raid-5 array using secondhand drives (first time setting one up for my own use), I would like to know just what kind of problems folks have been having. And now the test, what did the acronym RAID originally mean? graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- David Savage wrote: > G'day All, > > As the subject says I'm back from my 4 week North America sojourn. > After almost 30 hours in transit it's good to be home. I have the rest > of today & tomorrow to get over the travel shock before I have to get > back to the coal mine. > > I had a great time and took a heap of photos. I would have posted more > from the road but I just don't trust my laptop's screen, and those > that I had posted looked awful on the variety of different computers I > was able to use. > > Unfortunately my home workstation crapped out while I was away and > it's now with my "Computer Guy". Sounds like it's a hard drive/RAID > problem. Hopefully my files can be recovered as I'm way behind on my > backing up. :-/ > > Did I miss anything particularly juicy/interesting while away? :-) > > Cheers, > > Dave > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
