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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
Running HD Tune again
Benchmarking the MAXTOR 500GB HD which is on that pc.
Absolutely AWFUL compared to the SEAGATE disk. Transfer rate started at 109.4 / 95 MB/sec, but started dropping after 30% disk to a 48.5 minimum. Total average 85.5,
Access time 12.8
Burst Rate 108.4 MB/sec
CPU usage 5.0 %
PC died again
Running HD Tune again on the Seagate (NAS) Disk
Minimum = 116.8 MB/sec
Maximum = 121.6 MB/sec
Average = 120.3 MB/sec
Access Time 11.0 ms
Burst Rate 110.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage 7.6 %
PC died again (getting fed up with this)
Well, for what I can see from all the tests I run, the HD does not seem to be THAT faulty. I understand that the re-synching will stress the disk, and the NAS already started a re-synching. I am not sure if I should then:
a) refit HD1 (which NAS said it failed once), let it resynch (on the basis that all the tests I run so far seemed to be passed OK). I run the risk of a failure and data loss.
b) fit HD4 (new) and let NAS rebuild a "failed drive" (as in http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how ... ailed_disk ). I presume that I still run the disk of data loss.
c) if no data loss had occurred doing (b) run exhaustive test /reformat HD1 and, if tests are successful, refit HD1
Note. I cannot do a backup, as i do not have enough capacity, although I have a brand new 104 with a 4Tb HD, from a friend who did not like it (I bought it off her), but I wasn't planning of putting it "online" yet.
Benchmarking the MAXTOR 500GB HD which is on that pc.
Absolutely AWFUL compared to the SEAGATE disk. Transfer rate started at 109.4 / 95 MB/sec, but started dropping after 30% disk to a 48.5 minimum. Total average 85.5,
Access time 12.8
Burst Rate 108.4 MB/sec
CPU usage 5.0 %
PC died again
Running HD Tune again on the Seagate (NAS) Disk
Minimum = 116.8 MB/sec
Maximum = 121.6 MB/sec
Average = 120.3 MB/sec
Access Time 11.0 ms
Burst Rate 110.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage 7.6 %
PC died again (getting fed up with this)
Well, for what I can see from all the tests I run, the HD does not seem to be THAT faulty. I understand that the re-synching will stress the disk, and the NAS already started a re-synching. I am not sure if I should then:
a) refit HD1 (which NAS said it failed once), let it resynch (on the basis that all the tests I run so far seemed to be passed OK). I run the risk of a failure and data loss.
b) fit HD4 (new) and let NAS rebuild a "failed drive" (as in http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how ... ailed_disk ). I presume that I still run the disk of data loss.
c) if no data loss had occurred doing (b) run exhaustive test /reformat HD1 and, if tests are successful, refit HD1
Note. I cannot do a backup, as i do not have enough capacity, although I have a brand new 104 with a 4Tb HD, from a friend who did not like it (I bought it off her), but I wasn't planning of putting it "online" yet.
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