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I have a Windows Vista Acer Aspire Core 2 Quad. When I bought the machine, I set it up with two 500G hard drives in Raid 1 Mirror. All worked well for about two years, the Western Digital HD went out. I replaced with a 500G Seagate. It lasted for about eight months and failed. Now, I have gone thru four seagate warranty replacements. The first failed in four weeks. The second in two weeks, the third in two days, and the fourth in two days. Seagate had no solution. I read one report online about someone who had five hard drives fail in a row in Raid 1, he then replaced the hard drive cables and the problem went away. One Sunday, I replaced the failed drive with a new Wester Digital 500G HD and new HD cables. I also took the latest HD from Seagate, put it in Thermaltake Max 4 external enclosure and attached it via ESATA. I thought I would be able to add it to the Raid Array. It was listed as a non-Raid HD but asked if I wanted it as a spare. I set it up as a spare. From what I have read, the spare will be added to the array if one of the HDs fail. Is that correct? I also want a bullet proof for raid solution. This is a home computer, I just want it to work and hopefully not be having to replace hard drives all the time and when I do, as easy as possible. It has been three days since installing the Western Digital HD and setting up the external external hard drive. Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.
Terry
Terry