M17 failing HDD in RAID 0

Hey first post,

Well I've had my M17 for about 4 months now, no problems ever with it. It was smooth as butter from the start, of course I tweak some settings for vista to be butter-like but oh well. Just the other day I booted my PC and the Intel Matrix notified me of a failing HDD in the RAID config. The PC is still bootable but you can notice the lag from the data of the HDD that was failing. When booted it advised me to back up as much data as I can because of the failure. I went ahead and backed up as much as I could and haven't turned it on again. I'm planning on just replacing the hdd with an ssd from newegg and just keeping the other 250gig for storage of music and whatnot. Anyone else experience this problem yet? If so, what did you do about it? Any help will be appreciated I just want to see if I can do anything with that drive if not, that's not a problem. Thanks.

 

I'm surprised the system booted. If I'm correct, Raid 0 is a stripe, right? From time to time, bad things can happen to hard drives, and if raid was your original configuration, I would suggest getting the hard drive replaced (even though you're most likely going to try SSD).

Gabe

 

I am not too sure what you mean with "I can do anything with that drive" but I know that sb else had this problem here and one who had the information during the booting but instead of you just went on without any problems

The idea to save as mutch as possible is the best you can do.
But it sounds more to me like both HDDs would work quite well than one is broken^^

Your question about changing to a ssd + 250gb is also a good idea. I think the ssd will be faster than your Raid and a second 250 HDD as a place for stuff and co would be a great idea as well, it's realy easy to change HDDs (even I got a second HDD to work )

I am not too sure I understood all your question right but hopfully I did

Greetings
Julian

 

I thought the same, a broken HDD in a Raid 0 would kill everything ... but may be only a part of the second HDD is broken ...

Greetings
Julian

 

I'm getting the same warning on my desktop for a third time in 3 months already. First time I believe it was 'cause of overheating (needed a good internal dusting). Second and third times, I got the feeling, it happened 'cause of the wild access/write/read to the drives. I was excessively copying/muxing/downloading/etc. at the same time. HDs were "clicking" like mad. Warning just popped out of nowhere. Nothing failed. RAID0 kept doing its job. I stopped some processes to reduce load. Just cleared the warning and kept going. I've not done any backups, since there is no sensitive info on my RAID0.

 

I appreciate the responses. Nonetheless, I think I'm still going to go with the SSD + the 250 gig HDD for storage. I did go through the configurator and was able to reset the drives and it no longer said there was an error but then after restarting it, it came up with the same thing. I haven't been doing any hard usage or anything like that for them to have errors, maybe I just had bad luck and 1 of them just decided to die. Thanks again for the replies.