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That RAID issue sounds even more pressing.


Sorta. It's weird. It's a 3Ware Escalade 7500-4LP, by all accounts, a good RAID card. It's been happily working for at least a year now, and a few weeks back, one of the drives (drive 2) showed up in the BIOS status screen as "not in use." Rebuilding the array brought it back. Then, a week later, a different drive (drive 4) did the same thing, another rebuild, and now it's drive 4 again. I'm left wondering if it's really the drives having problems or if the card's just flaking out. Each time, rebuilding the array brought it back in several hours with no data loss.

I have yet to find out how to get SMART status or any kind of readout from the drives themselves, though. I'm also wondering if it's a heat issue, I don't have any drive coolers or anything in there and the 4 drives are right on top of each other. A lot of variables to figure out.

I guess the "right thing to do" would be buy the HSF *and* some new drives to cover all my bases. Grrr.
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