Hard drive question

mercury14 · Feb 9, 2011

When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?

unregistered · Feb 9, 2011

vrosej10 · Feb 9, 2011

mercury14 said:
When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?

Sounds like you might have a beasty loose.

pete · Feb 9, 2011

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and damn does that little baby fly!

cebalrai · Feb 9, 2011

vetteman said:
Run chkdsk on the other drive.

Chkdsk will only look for bad sectors on the disks and since it's a RAID-0 array it will be impossible to run it on just one drive. RAID-0 means the OS sees both drives as one big one, with a performance increase. Bad sectors are not the issue here. The problem is one of the following:

a) Your RAID controller is dying,

b) One of your hard drives is experiencing some type of mechanical failure in such a way that's not very noticeable for most tasks. It's also possible that the RAID array is somehow compensating for the decreased performance on one drive.

If I were you I'd do a full system backup, replace the drive, and then reinstall from image.

Lancecastor · Feb 9, 2011

Ask about its childhood.

mercury14 said:
When I boot up my laptop the Intel RAID (RAID 0) array screen tells me that one hard drive is good and the other has an error. The screen itself takes longer now than it ever did, but then my computer proceeds to boot fine. It also runs perfectly fine as far as I can tell. I backed up all my important stuff.

Anyone have any advice?

mercury14 · Feb 10, 2011

cebalrai said:
Chkdsk will only look for bad sectors on the disks and since it's a RAID-0 array it will be impossible to run it on just one drive. RAID-0 means the OS sees both drives as one big one, with a performance increase. Bad sectors are not the issue here. The problem is one of the following:

a) Your RAID controller is dying,

b) One of your hard drives is experiencing some type of mechanical failure in such a way that's not very noticeable for most tasks. It's also possible that the RAID array is somehow compensating for the decreased performance on one drive.

If I were you I'd do a full system backup, replace the drive, and then reinstall from image.

Okay so I ran Seatools on the array and it tested out okay. I wonder what's wrong...

Lancecastor · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
Okay so I ran Seatools on the array and it tested out okay. I wonder what's wrong...

Maybe you've been abusing it.

Cade Is Here · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
Okay so I ran Seatools on the array and it tested out okay. I wonder what's wrong...

Too much porn on your computer.

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

Lancecastor said:
Ask about its childhood.

I concur, but maybe you should blame bush

I would bed $1 on the controller, and on the laptop that = new laptop

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
Okay so I ran Seatools on the array and it tested out okay. I wonder what's wrong...

what type of laptop do you have? I havent seen any with 2 hard drives.

mercury14 · Feb 10, 2011

jeninflorida said:
what type of laptop do you have? I havent seen any with 2 hard drives.

It's a Dell M1730.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfh/notebooks/xpsnb_m1730/pd.aspx?refid=xpsnb_m1730&cs=22&s=dfh

Lancecastor · Feb 10, 2011

jeninflorida said:
what type of laptop do you have? I havent seen any with 2 hard drives.

Special Doctor's Edition.

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
It's a Dell M1730.
http://www.dell.com/us/en/dfh/notebooks/xpsnb_m1730/pd.aspx?refid=xpsnb_m1730&cs=22&s=dfh

naughty boy, a gaming laptop! I love the large screen

a friend of ours, his dell laptop just died. heat issues.

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

Cade Is Here said:
Too much porn on your computer.

I don't think that men can have enough porn...really! can they?

mercury14 · Feb 10, 2011

jeninflorida said:
naughty boy, a gaming laptop! I love the large screen

a friend of ours, his dell laptop just died. heat issues.

Yeah it's a gaming laptop and the screen is great. But I have it attached to a 24" monitor to it's basically just a small desktop. It also has two graphics cards.

My wife is deployed right now so I've been gaming again.

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
Yeah it's a gaming laptop and the screen is great. But I have it attached to a 24" monitor to it's basically just a small desktop. It also has two graphics cards.

My wife is deployed right now so I've been gaming again.

i'm glad hubby never got into gaming. I have him working right now....he's editing my zombie story

mercury14 · Feb 10, 2011

jeninflorida said:
i'm glad hubby never got into gaming. I have him working right now....he's editing my zombie story

I gamed back in the day and occasionally still do. But now with no wife here I find it fills the time nicely.

I ran into a game called Amnesia recently: http://www.amnesiagame.com/#main. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen by far. Playing it alone at night with headphones on has been an extraordinary experience. No joke, this thing is amazing.

jeninflorida · Feb 10, 2011

mercury14 said:
I gamed back in the day and occasionally still do. But now with no wife here I find it fills the time nicely.

I ran into a game called Amnesia recently: http://www.amnesiagame.com/#main. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen. Scarier than any movie I've ever seen by far. Playing it alone at night with headphones on has been an extraordinary experience. No joke, this thing is amazing.

a friend wants me to work with him on a game....but its old school...like those old text based games

mercury14 · Feb 10, 2011

Thinking of getting a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive. Anyone know anything about them?

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