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  • #16
    yeah the drive fitness provided by the manufacturers is usually a very good test.
    I have had drives that have no SMART errors but the manufacturers utility has picked up problems.

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    • #17
      Doesn't the raidcontroller have software in which the smart status of each drive can be seen?


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      • #18
        VJ - it says they are 'ok' but gives NO details. Like how many bad sectors there have been or health in any detail.

        I'm moving a bunch of data around and plan on breaking the raid later tonight. Moving almost 500gb of data around is.... painful. This is one of the main reasons I wish there was a cheap viable home backup method for these ever growing drives (other than other hard drives).
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        • #19
          Hard drives are still the best storage medium, for the price.

          I'd be happy getting another couple of 500Gb drives, just to be sure I had enough space for everything, and to have 500Gb free 'Just in case' i had to move the data from one of the 200+Gb storage drives...
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          • #20
            I don't know about other fakeRAID controllers, but Intel's Matrix RAID (ICHxR) doesn't allow disk's S.M.A.R.T. status reading if they are employed in any RAID volumes.

            Linux's software RAID, on the other hand, doesn't have such limitation because it access drives as separate block devices.

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            • #21
              I use a P5WD2 and Intels Matrix storage allowed me to see the same mount of basic SMART data as on the PATA controller...
              Basic as in OK on POST, like all the other drives.

              HDD Health is a free program that shows the SMART info...
              http://www.panterasoft.com/
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              • #22
                tried HDD Health without luck when I first went down this path.

                I agree wth HD's are still the cheapest/best backup method.. But as you all know... once you have storage space even if it shouldn't be used... you use it.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Claymonkey View Post
                  tried HDD Health without luck when I first went down this path.

                  I agree wth HD's are still the cheapest/best backup method.. But as you all know... once you have storage space even if it shouldn't be used... you use it.

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