Yet another dead RAID this morning

This time is a RAID 10 that a designer used in his desktop. The first drive of both mirror set becomes "free"...

I only used 4 hours to recover data from that (a full recovery of 160GB data) 

It's hard to imagine from now that I need 1 month to recover that 2 years ago (the first failed RAID10 incidence I encountered) My team and I have became quite used to that now.

Just curious, what make and model drives do you use?  How old are they?

DoomBringer wrote:

Just curious, what make and model drives do you use?  How old are they?

Equipment this time:
Promise TX4000
Maxtor 6Y080P0 x 4

The set was created about 1 year ago.

For the other raid set failed this 2 weeks, 2 from P brand(), 1 from A brand and 1 from S brand(this one is broken on install).

One of the incident for P brand is HDD fail, but in that case the raid card also has problem. Seems that the spare drive should be tested throughly before install. If the spare drive is found with problem during rebuild, the rebuild process halt and you can declare the RAID is dead.

I have the same experience................with any maxtor drives.

I have purchased about 18 Maxtor drives, 10 of them are dead right now, also have purchased about 25 seagates, all still up and running. In addition to that I have 8 WD's and 4 Hitachi's, and they all run perfect.

Here is what happens with Maxtor, they run good for anywhere from 1 week to 3 months, then they totally die in my experience.
This is NOT "consumer" drives, but either SCSI or Enterprise SATA.
We also messed around with some samsung for a time, but out of 4, 2 died, so we did not use anymore.

Overall I have nightmares about maxtors.  

Jason Scott, producer of "The BBS Documentry" said it best by saying: "Maxtor is the James Dean of Hard Drives. Live Fast, Die Young"

Personally, I've had HORRIBLE luck with 160GB western digital drives. I made a RAID array of them about 2 years ago, and I've had one crap out, then the other, now the replacements both decided to conk out at the same time.

~140GB of data down the pipes. Blech.

Get a real RAID controller, not these running jokes from Promise.

Tom Servo wrote:

Get a real RAID controller, not these running jokes from Promise.

With the defination in my mind, a RAID card with seperate computation unit and memory is considered a "real" RAID controller already. (Compare to those onboard software RAID)

So what's your defination of "real" RAID controller? Any names to suggest?

I really want to have these "risk control" things less "risky"...