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Ever had RAID 0 cause instability?

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jebo_4jc

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I think I might have this problem. I'm mostly referring to two programs: one is a game and the other is ATI's television program for my AIW. I have 2 36GB raptors in raid 0 (I know, I know, RAID 0 suxxorz, etc. I put them in raid 0 "just because", since I needed the extra space anyway, and the 74GB versions weren't out yet). I'm getting some lockups when using the ATI software while recording TV to my HDD. Also, while playing MVP 2005, I am seeing some pretty strange HDD access activity. The game pulls the announcers' speech off the HDD as the game plays, so the HD is constandly seeing activity. However, sometimes I will see 10 second pauses while, presumably, the announcers' speech is loaded in the middle of a play. Also, from time to time, while these pauses occur, it sounds like one or both of my drives are spinning up or down, I can't really tell
 
Power Supply? Cables? Diagnostics? Corruption? (well, probably not corruption, but hard drive torubleshooting starts out iwth answering these questions :D)
 
Any drive- or controller-related errors in your event log?
 
mikeblas said:
Any drive- or controller-related errors in your event log?
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Event log? What's an event log? :eek:

"The device, \Device\Scsi\viasraid1, did not respond within the timeout period."
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\D during a paging operation."
"The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur."



Thoughts?

This is in XP Pro, on an MSI PT880 motherboard onboard SATA. All drivers and BIOSes should be current.
 
If these aren't happening on different drives connected to the same controller, I think you can conclude that particular drive is failing.

Is there a link in the event log record? It might give smoe tips for diagnosis.
 
mikeblas said:
If these aren't happening on different drives connected to the same controller, I think you can conclude that particular drive is failing.
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I have RAID 0 set up. Would the controller make a distinction between the different drives even when striped?
 
jebo_4jc said:
I have RAID 0 set up. Would the controller make a distinction between the different drives even when striped?
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Oh, good point. The error message is about a logical drive. No way to tell if it's a controller (or driver) problem, or a disk problem.
 
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