Ewwww... My computer loafed in its pants

[FragTek]

Last night my Intel Matrix RAID setup decided to take a gigantic poo on my chest. Needless to say all data has been lost. I can also safely say that this is the first time I've ever had a RAID setup fail on me. BAD INTEL! :nutkick: I've never had any problems with nVRAID in the past, maybe Intel Matrix is just the poostick? Who knows.

Anywho, I'm not going to worry about fixing it until I get my new motherboard installed which hopefully I will have the time to do tonight.

Cheers!

 

[FarFarAway]

I've never trusted RAID for stuff I need but then I've also never had one go bad on me either.

 

[FragTek]

Yup, this is a first time experience for me

 

[Rastalovich]

I had this:

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=7343

Christmas eve, seemed to sort itself out tho ?!?!?!

 

[Ham]

Thats harsh

Did you have the essentials backed up?

 

[FragTek]

yeah thankfully i keep all of my important stuff on an external drive. i did lose my brand spankin new resume which took me a lot of time to compose. but, i think im saved there too because my dad has it on his lappy.

hopefully I'll have time tonight to sort out my computer and get it back up and running.

 

[Nagaru]

Sorry, hope you get it all sorted out.

 

[chudley]

My raid died on me a while back , havent got round to rebuilding yet, I am waiting till I can be bothered cos at the moment I am quite happy just using this HD and setup.

Who knows, I have a few weeks off work in feb, I might get round to doing it then lol.

 

[Hyper]

Was thinking of buying another samsung hdd and doing a raid myself but this topic has put me off.

Atleast you got all your data backed up though Frag

 

[Sticky Mick]

At the moment I wouldn't touch RAID with a 10ft barge pole

, just too damn unreliable. In the near future I'm going SATA. And I find a Live Linux CD to be the best HD file recovery utility I've ever used.

 

[FragTek]

At the moment I wouldn't touch RAID with a 10ft barge pole

, just too damn unreliable. In the near future I'm going SATA. And I find a Live Linux CD to be the best HD file recovery utility I've ever used.

Well technically RAID was created FOR reliability. If I had been using anything other than RAID 0 I would have been ok since I'd have a mirror of everything on the drive. RAID 0 is tricky, but the performance is outstanding.

 

[Alm]

sorry for you, not very pleasure to expirence.

 

[markkleb]

Frag, was that the Abit mobo?

I have used Raid0 on every build for the last couple years and never had a failure. But I dont care if I lose stuff because Reformat is my middle name.

Smart of you to back stuff up..