I have an HP M8120N computer. Several years-old. Raid 1 configured with two 300GB hard drives. I've always used Western Digital when replacing them. Over the years a drive would fail every 18-24 months. Early this year, four hard drives failed January to April. It was a pain but the fix was easy: Switch out the failed drive and the remaining drive would copy all data on to the new one in about an hour. I went about 6-7 months without any problems when I had a failure Saturday. I switched it out and the new drive failed again yesterday. Switched it out last night and the new one just now failed again. Any idea what is going on? I can't believe two new hard drives actually failed that quickly. Could my PC be the problem? Inter Rapid Storage Technology is the application. Thanks for any help.
My first inclination is that it is a voltage problem. This is based on the way the harddrive failed so fast. Are you overclocking your processor? And what brand of power supply are you using?
You need to be more specific. Are you saying the one that are in Raid mode been failing only or any single Sata connection also fail or corrupt your HDD? Is you OS in Raid mode? Another thing is that are you sure that your hdd is dead? Have you using an external USB and try to connect the failed HDD? Are you using any PCI Raid Card? Check your PSU and check your motherboard and it's bios setting. Also check if there are better Bios version for your motherboard.
personally I would never use a software or mobo raid get a controller card they tend to be far more stable in my experience
Had the power unit replaced last September and the motherboard in November. That probably has something to do with it.
