Storage Solutions Frequent HDD Crash - Few Questions

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GuruGulabKhatri

GuruGulabKhatri

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Okay Heres The Thing -
I Had Two Drives a WD Green 1 TB bought on July'10 and a Hitachi Deskstar 1 TB bought around March.Both were Running Fine until This Oct.The WD was Half Filled and The Hitachi Was Empty.The Following incidents happened one By one -

1.The WD Partitions were gone,so I Reinstalled OS On the hitachi again and after about 20 hours Of scanning Recovered all the data FroM the WD and Started Using The Hitachi

2.2 Months and more 250 gbs Later the Hitachi Stops working.So Gave The Hitachi For RMA, Reformatted the WD and Used Whatever Data was On It

3. Today The WD Stopped Working,Taking away With it about 500 Movies and My 100 Gb archive of MP3 Data :@

My question -
Why Did This Happen? I Have a Recently Fitted 600va APC UPS for surge protection,before that my pc was directly connected to our inverter.Sometimes the inverter would simply fail to switch from battery to main power and vice-versa.so the pc Would stop ,no Signal on LCD while The CPU will Run.This happened plenty of times Since The last year,But the UPS was Fitted before The second Incident.

My SMPS is a 450w Zebronics similar to this - Zebronics Fantasy Highend Computer Case / Cabinet +SMPS | eBay

is that the cause?
My Config is on my sig

TIA
 
Most probable cause is SMPS. Other than that it could be SATA HOST controller/ ports but somewhat unlikely...

Also do keep in mind that Green drives should not be used as primary since they have more reasons to fail. In order to save power their actuator always try to park & if you are torrenting then chances of failure increases pretty much...
 
Time to change PSU .i.e SMPS!.... Get a better one ,like Corsair,etc
I Had the Exact same problems 3 yrs ago,...& after i upgraded to Corsair Vx550,...All such issues of HDD crashing here & there, r now History!
 
HailStonE said:
Most probable cause is SMPS. Other than that it could be SATA HOST controller/ ports but somewhat unlikely...

Also do keep in mind that Green drives should not be used as primary since they have more reasons to fail. In order to save power their actuator always try to park & if you are torrenting then chances of failure increases pretty much...
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so getting a good psu and using the WD Green as Secondary should solve the issues right?but if i am not torrenting then how am i supposed to store files on that WD? download In Hitachi and Then Move The files To it????

Now I have Two options for a PSU -

1.http://www.primeabgb.com/index.php?...tegory_id=124&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53

2.http://www.primeabgb.com/index.php?...tegory_id=147&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=53

Out of These Which One would U recommend? I May Upgrade My GFx card and add More 4 GBs Of Ram Later

Also are these Available for a Cheaper price anywhere?

TIA
 
GuruGulabKhatri said:
so getting a good psu and using the WD Green as Secondary should solve the issues right?but if i am not torrenting then how am i supposed to store files on that WD? download In Hitachi and Then Move The files To it????
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Just make sure you do not download directly to WD green while torrenting. You can let it be connected to the system & use your other HDD to save data & then you can move it to WD once finished.

Which GPU you would be moving to. In any case you should get atleast 450-500 watt PSU ti take care of any overheads later...
 
HDDs may fail even with a good PSU. Its just pure luck IMO. Two of my HDDs failed(wd+seagate) this month and im using a Tagan BZ 800 Silver Certified modular PSU. Also has a 120mm fan for HDD cooling. Just do chkdsk regualrly for all drives if your system shutsoff due to frequent power failures. That way you can atleast know if any bad sectors has started developing.
 
I had a similar problem couple of months earlier. Changed SMPS, SATA cables, bought new HDDs but the problems re-occurred. Last I changed by Mobo (though there was no problems apparently) and the problems vanished.
 
HailStonE said:
Just make sure you do not download directly to WD green while torrenting. You can let it be connected to the system & use your other HDD to save data & then you can move it to WD once finished.

Which GPU you would be moving to. In any case you should get atleast 450-500 watt PSU ti take care of any overheads later...
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Thats why there is a cache in most of the torrent clients, to prevent constant read/writes to the HDD.
 
vivek.krishnan said:
Thats why there is a cache in most of the torrent clients, to prevent constant read/writes to the HDD.
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Even with cache green drives are more susceptible to failure 'coz in order to save power actuator keeps parking after some time while in traditional drives it does not do so as often.......
 
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