Thread: Noisey RAID array,,

sound like the head is attempting to park.

Power is set to high, pc and screen set to never turn off. 525W PSU, 80 plus gold would you believe---
"non powered" graphics card.

Is it one hard drive 'clicking' or several ? Generally doesn't mean anything good. I'd be backing up right away 'just in case'.

Deano

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

All 4 drives are identical Seagates, old but working, all Seagate Tool tests pass, even the DOS noise ones,
This only happens at idle after a while and instantly disappears when you write to the array.
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*Likely when you write to the drive (or rather the drives) your not accessing the bad sectors in the one drive.
*If you know the bad drive in question and you have raid 4 or greater, its time to replace/re-populate new drive.
*Diagnostic tools such as the seagate tool wont always pick up on mechanical faults or failings of a drive
*In saying that, I've recovered many a drive in a raid cluster that was failing mechanically with Spinrite

GRC | Hard drive data recovery software

Regards
Daz

Thanks all,, my apologies for not mentioning the array was dead empty,,
it does make a difference in how the problem is tackled..

it was definitely ALL drives Deano--
Have stored that link away Dazza

now the good news.
This old MB originally shipped with a RAID solution called "Intel Matrix Storage Manager"
but!
has been updated/graded to "Intel Rapid Storage Technology"
*rolls eyes
and all unaccountable noises have stopped!

Glad all is good...
I have a dislike for any propriety software that does raid due to that "oh we have changed it to this new better thing"

honestly Ive found over the decades.... a Linux (in your preferred flavour) raid 5 for a NAS to be incredibly durable and redundant against software, hardware and power failures. Apart from hard-drive failures (which are easy to replace) I've had a motherboard fail, replaced board (cpu etc etc) with a "similar" board and while the Linux OS complained it still booted up and ran normal enough to access the data.

*yes you have to learn SOME Linux.

Regards
Daz

and i hope I'm not beyond that Dazza,,
I actually have a Ubuntu long term iso around here somewhere,,
this OS was just an emergency thing due to a (I think-) MB failure,,
I am not happy with the array, but its still a learning thing,,

whats the raid requirement?

i'll rephrase.

why did you choose to go with raid?