In this last week three out of my five HDDs have had serious issues.
I should add that the F: drive is probably four years old, the D: drive about six years old, and the Z: drive only 18 months old.
I've bought a 6Tb and an HP Microserver to back everything up onto (and all the important stuff is already backed up on external HDDs and Dropbox) - but the reason I'm making this post is:
Do three failed drives in the same week indicate some other problem? Perhaps the Storage Controller on the motherboard is messing up? Or the PSU? Or the RAM? Is there anything I can diagnose the source of the problem?
- The first (F: ) started being unable to read video files, then showed a load of errors on HD Pro Tune (I don't remember which, but when I get home I'll fill in some details) - but I could still navigate the whole drive and see all the filenames.
- Then one of my HDDs started making a horrific clicking noise on start-up. I immediately turned off my PC, and it then refused to boot. I unplugged an HDD at random (D: ), and suddenly the PC started working. I've since plugged it back in, and had no issues at all.
- Yesterday my Z: drive stopped showing up in Windows Explorer, or only showed up for the first minute of the PC being turned on. I let Windows do its usual "Scan for Errors", and it skipped through 11,000 entries happily before reporting its first bad sector, then continued to report them all as bad. Up to the point of that first bad sector I could see the drive on Windows Explorer, but it was gone the moment Windows discovered that bad sector.
I should add that the F: drive is probably four years old, the D: drive about six years old, and the Z: drive only 18 months old.
I've bought a 6Tb and an HP Microserver to back everything up onto (and all the important stuff is already backed up on external HDDs and Dropbox) - but the reason I'm making this post is:
Do three failed drives in the same week indicate some other problem? Perhaps the Storage Controller on the motherboard is messing up? Or the PSU? Or the RAM? Is there anything I can diagnose the source of the problem?
