Vista User

If you are using a Raid I would use the same make and model disk.


"Larry@avstim.com" <Larryavstimcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Has anyone experienced this? I was running an HP e6700 system, vista
> ultimate, RAID 0 configuration, WD2500 drives. After loading iTunes and
> hooking my new iPhone up, the system reported one raid volume failed.
> Shortly
> thereafter the motherboard tried to automatically load a bios update. The
> computer locked. HP subsequently replaced the MB and HD. Due to the loss
> of
> one disk I had to do a fresh Vista install.
>
> I then set up a RAID 5 system last week with four 250G hard drives to make
> certain if it crashed again I was more than protected this time.
> Everything
> was fine. Feeling confident, I downloaded iTunes (do you know where this
> is
> going yet?) hooked up my iPhone. Downloaded a bunch of podcasts. Was just
> finishing downloading the nightly new video and crash, the system
> restarted
> with no shutdown. I lost two hard drives according to the RAID
> configuration
> screen. Through some effort I have the system up and running on three
> drives
> at the moment and am replacing the failed drive this morning.
>
> I will say that the drive that failed was a Samsung 250G drive that HP
> sent
> in place of the previously failed WD2500JS. I tried to tell them there
> might
> be an inconsistency between brands based on what their own in house tech
> told
> me but they insisted it made no difference as long as they were the same
> size.
>
> The question is has anyone experienced anything similar? And is it wildly
> possible for the iPhone to take down hard drives, or is this just an
> amazing
> coincidence?