[Gllug] Hard drive problems

[Rich Walker]

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).

Time to use up some Maplin vouchers...

cheers, Rich.

>
> Dan
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