One of my HDD"s crashed?

Have raid 0 500gb 7200rpm drives in my M17xR1. The problem occurred yesterday after a shutdown. When I turned the computer back on, the HDD/power button alien head light does not function for the first 5-10minuites or so when the computer is on and the computer has slowed down considerably to the point where boot up is a 10minuite process(doing any other thing requires considerably more time as well). After approx 10minuites, the HDD/power light *does* come back up but the HDD seek light remains light all the time. I can hear every few seconds or so the discs seeking via the traditional clicking noise. Task manager shows cpu/ memory usage in nominal levels (<10% cpu and <30% memory). I was able to boot into safe mode(of which it seems that the computer responds normaly, however the light still remains off) and just wait out a full virus scan of which nothing was identified sans some tracking cookies. I was moderately overclocked at the time however The results repeat themselves when @ stock clocks. turned off all non-essential startup programs and the problem persists. Sporadically the computer seems to respond normal for a few seconds before becoming very slow again. Running through a full scan disc now.. but I'm not sure It'll fix the problem. The laptop remained in the same position from the time I shut it down to the time I turned it back on and the problem began. this is my first RAID experience, so I'm not sure if it's possible for the RAID to function while one of the drives has crashed or not. Maybe one is just operating @ below normal RPMS?

 

Scan disc did discover a few bad clusters (which is odd since the discs are only a few months old..) of which it seems some were located within the windows prefetch directory. computer is back up and running normally.

 

Lozz,

I had a 500gb 7200rpm drive fail on me last Monday. It was 84 days old.
New one will be installed tonight along with a second in raid 1 as I can't afford
the downtime.

Gene

 

I stay away from RAID 0. Doubles your chance of losing your data since your depending on two HDD's. With SSD there is no raid support for trim so it gains you nothing there either.

 

Yeah As awsome as RAID 0 is it seems so unreliable in lappys. But even when im using 2 drives i typically have the OS installed on both. Saved my Arse a couple years back. I just switched the boot drive and back up and running.

 

Raid 0 is an oximoron as it provides no redundancy which is what RAID is all about... Like DR650SE says you double your points of failure and since the data is stripped on all drives data recovery becomes a much more compllicated process...

Glad you were able to recover your drives.