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Originally posted by s0laris2
I "HAD" a Raid 5, 4 drive IDE system with Maxtor Drives.
Last night 2 drives died instantly.. I lost EVERYTHING as it was 200 gigs of data and that is pretty hard to back up.
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That is very unusual (and highly improbable). Is it possible that someone got into your server (physically or over the network) and did it?
200 GB of data? That is a lot for web sites. Maybe a tape back-up or DVD-RW system is what you need? and backup only things you need (no huge log files etc).
"Yes I can probably get a new circuit board on 1 of the hd's, but the second one is KNOCKING.. so my platter is compromised"
So it's not that bad. If you have 3 out of 4 hard drives from a RAID 5 array, it should work and you will get all your data back.
As for recommendations, almost all our boxes are custom built but from my experience (for IDE drives) IBM is great.