I recently decided to try out a file server setup on Windows 2000 with some old HDDs. The HDDs previously worked fine and all was good, but because I was installing windows 2000 and updating it, I had to turn off the computer quite often.
So as time goes on (through out the two days) I started to notice that 5 of the drives in the system were starting to act funny (dieing). One by one the drives would start acting erractically but not be technically dead (could still be read from I think though blank). So each time the drive would act funny, I would remove the defective drive and restart the computer.
So now I've gone from 5 small capacity drives that worked perfectly fine to 1 drive that appears to be dieing as well. Because I power cycled this system quite often because of the hardware changes and updates, I'm wondering if the drive's failure can be directly related to frequent power cycling. (I think I power cycled the system through out the 2 days about 20 times at least). Had I left the system on would these drives have died out later? I in a way hoping that these drives would slowly die and by then I would have money to replace them with 200GB drives.
Cliff notes:
1.Took old 1-4GB drives circa 1994-1997 and installed it into a system meant to be used as a "test" file system.
2. In order to bring windows 2000 up to date, I power cycled the system a minimum of 20 times (includes msc. hardware changes).
3. After about a minimum of 15 power cycles, one by one the HDDs started to fail.
4. Because of power cycling, I'm now wondering if power cycling is the reason for the drive's failure.
So as time goes on (through out the two days) I started to notice that 5 of the drives in the system were starting to act funny (dieing). One by one the drives would start acting erractically but not be technically dead (could still be read from I think though blank). So each time the drive would act funny, I would remove the defective drive and restart the computer.
So now I've gone from 5 small capacity drives that worked perfectly fine to 1 drive that appears to be dieing as well. Because I power cycled this system quite often because of the hardware changes and updates, I'm wondering if the drive's failure can be directly related to frequent power cycling. (I think I power cycled the system through out the 2 days about 20 times at least). Had I left the system on would these drives have died out later? I in a way hoping that these drives would slowly die and by then I would have money to replace them with 200GB drives.
Cliff notes:
1.Took old 1-4GB drives circa 1994-1997 and installed it into a system meant to be used as a "test" file system.
2. In order to bring windows 2000 up to date, I power cycled the system a minimum of 20 times (includes msc. hardware changes).
3. After about a minimum of 15 power cycles, one by one the HDDs started to fail.
4. Because of power cycling, I'm now wondering if power cycling is the reason for the drive's failure.
