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Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:37:53 GMT

Anyone having problems with X25-E reliability? We bought ten drives and put 8 of them into a RAID array, and over the past month two of them have failed. One could be a fluke, but two out of ten seems like a really high failure rate in a month.

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:04:58 GMT

That does seem like an extraordinarily high failure rate. I have had 4 in RAID 0 since shortly after they were released without any problems. I have not seen people posting reviews noting any failures so far. I hope Intel is taking care of you on the warranty.

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:49:39 GMT

Can you tell us the serial numbers of failed drives?

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:55:08 GMT

Does it Intel chipset based RAID or not?

If yes then /thread/5036?tstart=0 http://communities.intel.com/thread/5036?tstart=0 possible reason of failures

if not I still need the serials

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:26:36 GMT

Sent them back to NewEgg already. I have the serial numbers for the other drives in the shipment... might be from the same batch if that would be helpful.

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:02:12 GMT

yep if you can, please post it

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:18:21 GMT

We used an Adaptec 5805 and the PERC 6i

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Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:38:16 GMT

Sorry for delay

Yes it is possible that some drives came from same batch.

Re: Intel X25-E Failures

idata — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:37:04 GMT

This is very interesting, and yet concerning, as we are about to deploy a 15 drive x25 RAID-6 array using a PERC 6/E controller.

Rjdevereux, can you clarify which RAID card the drives were connected to when they failed? Was it the Adaptec 5805, or the PERC 6i?