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| Last weekend, one of my 8 Seagate Constellation SAS drives failed in my RAID 5. Although, after the rebuild with my spare drive (which took about 40 hours), all my data was "there," some of it was corrupted. Quite a few video media files on one active project had strange colored squares every few frames. Because I'm a backup fanatic, I had already overwritten a good backup with bad data before I discovered the corruption. The only thing that saved me from totally losing face with a client was that the camera guy still had the footage on his portable drive, which I was able to borrow and re-copy. That was a close one. Seagate has my failed drive now. It's under warranty and I'll get a replacement, but reading that your replacement drive failed on you isn't very encouraging, Chris. Seagate warranty replacement drives are usually refurbs. On Dec 13, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Chris Meyer wrote: > On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Chris Bator wrote: > >> Seagate 750GB drive failures?…. > > Had one fail; got a replacement from Seagate and put it in a different computer (so it's not hardware-specific), and that one failed within a week. > > Not happy. > > But thankful I had automatic TimeMachine backups. > > - Chris > > >> >> On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Chris Meyer wrote: >> >>> On Dec 13, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Dann Stubbs wrote: >>> >>>> just don't rely ONLY on the RAID to save you… >>> >>> Agreed. I had one drive fail in our LaCie NAS RAID, replaced the faulty drive as per their directions, and it promptly corrupted the other drive - so I was hosed. >>> >>> OTOH, TimeMachine backups have saved my bacon multiple times just this past month, including during a rash of Seagate 750 GB drive failures. >>> >>> - Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> +---End of message---+ >>> To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> >> > |
