dead hard drives

One of my hard drives on my raid 0 setup just shat itself. I reformat and set up the remaining hard drive and it seems to have some errors on it. Then I reformat again and I can't find any problems and all HD scans show everything is good. Is there a chance the remaining drive could be still be fucked up?

yes. harddrives have basically been proven to be unreliable no-matter-what. There is absolutely no amount of benchmarking or scanning you could do to prove that the drive will not start failing again.

You could create a drive-filling RAR file and try verifying it every few weeks, but that still won't prove longterm reliability. Errors happen to drives when drives start failing- period. If an error happens even once, it's a sure sign that the drive has begun to die.

Another thing you may not have checked is the SMART info. There doesn't appear to be many programs to analyze it, sadly. I use DiskCheckup freeware. http://www.passmark.com/ There is also talk about demagnetising it or some shit, like reversing the magnetism, but I have no information on it.

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Thanks for the help. You think I should toss the drive now or stick it out and see how long it lasts?

depends on how cheap/hard up you are.

i'd do anything i could do get use out of it or see if it works, but i have no money and a lot of time. No real reason to just throw it out, there's many uses for a dying drive like file transfer, backup, testing unix distros, your PS2. Just don't put any data you -want- on it.

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can see how long it lasts just dont put anything you care about on it