Lost My RAID Array

[Apoptosis]

I lost my WD Raptor RAID 0 array last night due to a hard drive failure on the office PC... I haven't done a backup recently, so I lost a ton of stuff. I also lost several reviews worth of data as they were stored in Excel sheets that were on the RAID 0 array. I should have been backing up better, but I guess I just got lazy and am now paying the price big time.

I re-installed Windows Vista 64-bit on an Intel X-25M SSD and the system is stuttering and freezing when doing simple things like browsing the internet and reading the F@H log... The only things installed on the system are Far Cry 2, F@H and Adobe Acrobat Reader 9, so I'm guessing the board it going on. It's an old nForce 680i SLI from 2006 that has run 24/7 for over 2 years. I've changed memory, video cards and so on for fun and nothing worked.

I had a GeForce 9300 IGP review for you guys in the works, but that along with all my core i7 data is gone. Looks like I have to re-do over a week worth of benchmarking. Needless to say my GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 won't be putting out ~7.700 points a day for a bit as I'm not sure what I am going to do with the office PC. I want to go core i7, but don't have any extra processors yet and no one will sell me one... If anyone reading this works at a retail shop and has a core i7 processors in stock, PM Me.

I might just use my laptop till core i7 hits retail and just pick up one of the Core i7 920 processors as at 2.66GHz that will be a direct clock for clock replacement of the QX6850 that was in the office rig and cost under $300. (yes, i buy hardware as Intel and others don't send us everything for free like many would think)

[DX]

What you don't have a RAID in your pocket?

[Alathald]

Wow that really sucks, have to tried anything like Hiren's Boot CD? It's got a bunch of hard drive tools on it that may be able to potentially save at least some data...guess it depends on the type of failure (eg won't save you if it was a head crash). Sounds like a long couple of weeks ahead, and you already have pretty long weeks it seems

[Darkstar]

well that just plain sucks, sorry to hear that nate.

[DMB2000uk]

Could the timing of this be any worse with how many new things are coming out?

Was the drive showing as broken in the RAID BIOS?

My 975 board with RAID is getting temperamental, Every so many boots it will tell me the RAID array broke (but both drives still show up as ok), I really need to wipe the PC, reflash the BIOS and hope it will work alright after that (I think all my files are backed up to date )

Dan

[martini161]

wow that really sucks. what kind of failure was it on the Harddrive/