[Gllug] Hard drive problems

[Dan Kolb]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:54:25PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> Dan Kolb <gllug at eco.li> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:00:01PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
> >> 
> >> I don't know if anyone else has them, but yesterday and today I had a
> >> Samsung Spinpoint SP2514N fail each day, with lots of IDE busy errors.
> >> 
> >> I've just removed them and now a Maxtor drive is doing the same thing.
> >> 
> >> Kernel version 2.6.20 SMP - any ideas?
> >
> > Power supply problems?
> >
> > I've had quite a few SATA disks (Seagate) appear to fail in my RAID array, and
> > after sending a number of them back, it was suggested that maybe my PSU had
> > issues (indeed one of the rails was under-voltage). Replacing the PSU fixed the
> > issue.
> 
> That's a point. There's a fair draw on the CPU, and the PSU is "only" 500
> or 600W (and not the most expensive I could get).

I've got a 550W PSU for 10 disks + 2 DVD drives. It's plenty enough. The
previous one was also 550W, but a cheap one.

What do the voltage sensors report?

Dan
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