I am running a pair of WD2002FAEX on a Asus P8Z68 motherboard in Raid 1 configuration. Randomly one of the drives will disappear (not seen in Windows, the BIOS or the RAID configuration utility). Generally a couple reboots and it will come up again. Have tried different ports and cables, but am also seeing the same behavoir from these drives in at least 2 other machines running on different model ASUS motherboards.
WD Diagnostics show the disk as fine, but wondering if maybe there is a firmware update available for them? Your help is appreciated. Thanks!
@FailedHDDs: Thanks for trying to help, but as quoted from the page you linked:
“Desktop Class Hard Drives are tested and recommended for use in consumer-type RAID applications (RAID-0 / RAID-1).” - I am using the drive in a recommended and tested setup.
“Critical: WD Caviar Black, Caviar Green, and Caviar Blue hard drives are not recommended for and are not warranted for use in RAID environments utilizing Enterprise HBAs and/or expanders and in multi-bay chassis” - I am not using in this environment so warranty is not voided.
I also mentioned in my initial post that the drive itself dissppeared from the BIOS as well as the RAID which indicates a problem that is not related to the deep recovery cycle as the drive is essentially gone from the system.
