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Server reinstall on Windows 7 x64 (+ some SSD issues)
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:20 pm
by Hyper
Because I finally wanted to upgrade my server's OS from
Strong and Stable to Windows 7, I ordered a [url=http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mushkin-reactor-512gb-ssd,4163.html]new SSD[/url] (Mushkin Reactor 480GB) and a Windows 7 license. (Windows 7 is too big for my old 120 GB SSD + server data)
Yesterday I received both but after a day of struggling I must conclude that the SSD is completely broken. The drive continues to corrupt data and show bad blocks/sectors. A disk surface test clearly shows the problems:
[img]http://www.hypercoop.tk/forum/mushkin_reactor_bad.JPG[/img]
It should be clear that I'll never be able to host a reliable server from this drive, so I removed it from the system, popped in my trusty old Kinston SSD and booted fine again on the old OS.
By the time the disk has been replaced, I will need to re-install everything again. Sorry for the extended interruptions.
Re: Bad SSD
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 3:00 pm
by Kajgue
Lol @ the Theresa May satirical video XP
I hope you get these problems sorted out, Hyper.
Re: Bad SSD
Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 4:13 pm
by BobIsUnreal
ssd's are surprisingly rebust most of the time.
[img]http://www.bobisunreal.com/Random/Forum/ssd.png[/img]
2.5 years, and over 15 tb of writes,still going.
i moved most of the static files to a mech drive tho, but all active stuff lives on the ssd with the os.
2 unreal servers, a 4 world mincraft server, voice server
voice replaybuffer for ts,apache,mysql,wordpress,irc, chatlink and it servers as a nas.
Re: Bad SSD
Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 8:14 pm
by Hyper
My replacement SSD arrived today. I'll be re-attempting my server Windows 7 installation soon, which means more downtime. I keep my current SSD in case I need to go back to my existing config.
Re: Bad SSD
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 2:47 pm
by Hyper
The replacement SSD (Same model, MKNSSDCR480GB) seems to work fine now. Everything seems to be running fine at Windows 7 x64 so I hope this time it will turn out to be all right.
There may be some more downtime when I make some an image backup of the new installation but most of the downtime should be over now.
This also will be a goodbye to Windows NT 5.x for me as my server with XP x64/Server 2003 x64 was the last of my systems actively running an NT5.x class OS. Starting with Windows 2000 in 1999 these OS-es have served me very well and I'll look back to them with fond memories.
But now it is nice to have all my systems running Windows 7 x64, which is my personal favorite Windows of all time and seeing the direction that Microsoft has taken with Windows, I may just stick with Windows 7 with many years to come.
Online again
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 10:02 pm
by Hyper
All tests went fine. I'm currently running a large image backup of the new system and after this the server will be up on Windows 7 x64.
And we're back online!
Re: Bad SSD
Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2017 9:02 pm
by x21
ssd's are surprisingly rebust most of the time.
[img]http://www.bobisunreal.com/Random/Forum/ssd.png[/img]
2.5 years, and over 15 tb of writes,still going.
Is that thing still going??!
EDIT:
Found a useful link
https://techreport.com/review/27909/the ... all-dead/2
I guess you should be okay for a little bit longer