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iamdarkyoshi
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I am building a low end gaming machine for a friend (old high end core2duo business workstation) and the the hard drive is the first one I could find of a reasonable capacity, 200gb. But every time the head moves it is really loud. It also runs rather warm so I put my usual overkill HDD cooling on it. Is there something I could test it with to makensure it is not going to eat his data after a week?

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Check the drive using CrystalDiskInfo.

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Every time I boot it up to test another drive, it keeps getting slower and louder...

Then it's on its way out.

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HOLY BALLS I POWERED ON AN OLD 80GB SAMSCUM AND IT SAYS IT IS HEALTHY. ALMOST 45,000 HOURS. THATS 5 YEARS

I had a drive last me 10 years. It was an old IDE drive.

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that amounts to 5 years of running. These came from a less than ideal cooling setup

Mine never got cooled.

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I managed to find two 80gb samsung drives of the same model and they both have had around 5 years of on time and show "healthy". Should I use them? I do belive this old machine (dx4600) has a SATA RAID controller. Make them redundant? Striped? What should I do? What would be the easiest to clone later if he gets a new drive?

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I managed to find two 80gb samsung drives of the same model and they both have had around 5 years of on time and show "healthy". Should I use them? I do belive this old machine (dx4600) has a SATA RAID controller. Make them redundant? Striped? What should I do? What would be the easiest to clone later if he gets a new drive?

I cannot definitively tell you the drives are okay. You might want to run some SMART tests on the drives to make sure - even then nothing is 100%. Always have a proper backup. Always.

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I cannot definitively tell you the drives are okay. You might want to run some SMART tests on the drives to make sure - even then nothing is 100%. Always have a proper backup. Always.

Well the only thing on them is a new install of windows :P Should I mirror the drives? I will try to do this on my own, but iI have never setup a raid config before.

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Well the only thing on them is a new install of windows

For now. I'm not going to say you "should" RAID them, but you can certainly try it. Mirroring though isn't a proper backup - if data gets removed on the usable drive, the second drive automatically follows.

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For now. I'm not going to say you "should" RAID them, but you can certainly try it. Mirroring though isn't a proper backup - if data gets removed on the usable drive, the second drive automatically follows.

Well the failing drive is windows. The raid drives are empty. I am trying to set it up in the bios and the dying drive is unplugged atm

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Hi there @iamdarkyoshi!

 

Judging by the results of the hard drive check you've run I would say that you need to replace the HDD since it's failing. So make a backup of your important data and look for a replacement drive.

 

As for what type of RAID to use in your machine, I would suggest to set them up in RAID 1 since it will give you some additional redundancy. However, keep in mind that this array is not a substitute for backup because there are a lot of risks that it can't protect against like:

 

* If you accidentally delete a file, it will instantly be removed from both mirrored copies.

 

* If your disk is corrupted by a software bug or virus, the corruption will be done to both mirrored copies simultaneously.

 

* If you're hit by a bad enough power surge, it'll probably fry both disks at the same time, etc.

 

Hope this helps.

 

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