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Got this new samsung 750gig drives after some sites gave it good reviews, put a swap partition at the start of it and then formatted the rest as one large ntfs partition.
Problems started almost right away.
1 - copying some files of older drive with write cache enabled, was fast but then frequently stalled for sometimes many minutes, in diskmon during the stall it showed extreme slow writes.
2 - disabling write cache the stalls eventually clear up and it can write with no stalls but the write speeds are horrific slower than the oldest drive in my machine.
3 - upgraded the ICH7R drivers to latest, tried again with write cache, this time no stalls so think its fixed, however after a hour or so, this time the entire disk seem to crash and because the swap was on it the system was more or less frozen stuck trying to page, hard resetted the pc. ON next bootup in the event logs was a iastor timeout error and loads of errors cannot write to the pagefile on the disk.
4 - downgraded to older ich7R drivers I had used for years and no such stall problems, things seemed much better, these older drivers force write caching off tho so performance poor on the system, however 10 minutes ago the system stalled for 2 minutes, sure enough in the event log iastor timed out and cannot write to page disk.
I did at first blame the intel controller and its drivers (ICH7R) but now I dont think its the problem.
Googling shows this drive has issues on nforce boards and disabling NCQ fixes the issues, so I suspect it may be it messing up on NCQ and if I ran the ICH7 in ide mode it would be fine.
Before I put the drive in I had no iastor timeouts at all with 3 other drives using it.
Even with the errors the event log is showing no timeout errors on the other 3 drives.
My board is a asus p5wdh deluxe with the ICH7R controller in RAID mode using raid drivers in windows xp.
Anyone else had problems with this drive? and does this problem sound like a drive or controller error to you?
Problems started almost right away.
1 - copying some files of older drive with write cache enabled, was fast but then frequently stalled for sometimes many minutes, in diskmon during the stall it showed extreme slow writes.
2 - disabling write cache the stalls eventually clear up and it can write with no stalls but the write speeds are horrific slower than the oldest drive in my machine.
3 - upgraded the ICH7R drivers to latest, tried again with write cache, this time no stalls so think its fixed, however after a hour or so, this time the entire disk seem to crash and because the swap was on it the system was more or less frozen stuck trying to page, hard resetted the pc. ON next bootup in the event logs was a iastor timeout error and loads of errors cannot write to the pagefile on the disk.
4 - downgraded to older ich7R drivers I had used for years and no such stall problems, things seemed much better, these older drivers force write caching off tho so performance poor on the system, however 10 minutes ago the system stalled for 2 minutes, sure enough in the event log iastor timed out and cannot write to page disk.
I did at first blame the intel controller and its drivers (ICH7R) but now I dont think its the problem.
Googling shows this drive has issues on nforce boards and disabling NCQ fixes the issues, so I suspect it may be it messing up on NCQ and if I ran the ICH7 in ide mode it would be fine.
Before I put the drive in I had no iastor timeouts at all with 3 other drives using it.
Even with the errors the event log is showing no timeout errors on the other 3 drives.
My board is a asus p5wdh deluxe with the ICH7R controller in RAID mode using raid drivers in windows xp.
Anyone else had problems with this drive? and does this problem sound like a drive or controller error to you?