Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > 7200.11 RAID0 care.

7200.11 RAID0 care.

Forum Storage : Hard Disks - 7200.11 RAID0 care.

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
billw2009   04-22-2009 at 05:21:45 PM

So I saw the performance figures on the 3.5" charts, and the price of Seagate 320GB 7200.11 drives, and thought "I'll get two!", with the plan to put them in RAID0, and have a very fast main drive.
I have noticed on this forum various people mentioning the "DOA" and faliure rates of these drives are high, so I am a bit worried by this.
What I would like to know is once I have set up my RAID with these drives, what steps can I take to reduce the chance of errors? Obviously don't expose them to high g-forces, but other than that any advice? I used to hear people advise that a hard-reset can cause hard-drive damage, is this still the case? My computer does tend to freeze up in a few of my games, so whats the solution if hard-resets are bad?

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
vgdarkstar   04-23-2009 at 08:20:57 PM
- 0 +

Get the latest firmware for the drives, if they don't already have it, newegg has the links up.

Other than that, you should be fine, I have a 1.5TB B11 that started having problems, updated the firmware and haven't had a problem since. Hard resets shouldn't be a problem unless you're using a non battery backup RAID card.

Reply to vgdarkstar
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > Hard Disks > 7200.11 RAID0 care.
Go to:

There are 1195 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.399 seconds
Please mind

You are about to answer a thread that has been inactive for more than 6 months.
If you still wish to proceed, please ensure that your posting is original and does not duplicate or overlap any prior responses to this thread.

Add a reply Cancel
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them
How do I win badges?