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Precision 380 hard drive failures
My Precision 380 workstatation is 10 months old. The system is configured with Seagate 120 GB Barracuda SATA disk drives configured as a RAID 1 set (Intel Matrix Manager hardware RAID). The first SATA drive failed when the system was one month old. The failed drive was replaced and rebuilding the RAID 1 set went smoothly. This week the second original SATA drive failed. Dell diagnostics identified one bad block on this drive. I obtained another Seagate 120 GB Barracuda SATA drive and attempted to rebuild the RAID 1 set. I was unsuccesful as the supposedly good member of the RAID 1 set indicated a problem. Dell diagnostics indicated seven bad blocks on this drive.
I can certainly understand a disk drive failing, but three Seagate drives failing in 10 months on this system is beyond belief. The Seagate drives were purchased new from another vendor and the RAID implementation was performed by me. That means Dell assumes limited responsibility for the problem. (The computer and peripherals are protected by a battery-backed up UPS, just to cover that concern.)
I wonder if the disk drive controller could somehow be damaging the SATA drives. With a difficult system rebuild ahead of me, I hate to think that the problem will occur again.
I welcome any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks.
Larry
(Cross-posted on the Precision RAID forum)
rholland
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July 28th, 2006 00:00
Chipstone
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August 11th, 2006 02:00
After the fan was installed the temperature is around 34-38C. Bad blocks are also triggered when a cable is defective or not properly seated. These drives, if the have a bad block can be low-level reformatted. Seagate’s website has software for low-level format as well as Windows
Message Edited by Chipstone on 08-10-200611:49 PM