BSoD due to SSD in Raid0? SATA2 quicker than SATA3?? Help Apprecieted

chrisrae

chrisrae

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recently built a computer, but since finished i have had nothing but problems.

ASUS Sabertooth X58 (Latest BIOS)
Intel 6 Core 980x @ Stock
24gb of Corsair Vengeance RAM (10 - 10 - 10 - 27, 1.6V)
XFX 5770 1GB
Corsair 750watt Modular PSU
2x OCZ Agility 3 in Raid 0 (Latest Firmware)
Asus Xonar

The computer was giving me regular BSOD's through general use and prime 95, later found out after doing memtest that the ram was causing the problems, increased timings and voltages and seem to be having no problems with the RAM at this moment in time. Prime 95 seems to be stable.

However, after installing windows odd behavior occurs. For example i will download a file which will start like normal, get a certain percentage through and then stop this is sometimes followed by an error like 'Could not download file XXX from XXX.

It will also reboot and give me the error message Boot device not accessible, after reebooting the machine again it seems to be fine.

However this was when i was running RAID 0 on the SATA 2 Ports. I have since changed to the 6gb SATA ports (SATA 3) and i am getting SLOWER speeds on HDTUNE as well as this problem of files stopping, currently doing a HDTUNE error test and nothing thus far. I really don't understand why it is SLWOER in the SATA 3 ports and i don't understand why on a fresh install on windows downloads seem to stop before finishing and crash?

I have upgraded the firmware on the BIOS and the Hard drives and still this occurs. However, it does seem to be fine when windows is installed on the 2TB backup drive)

So 2 questions really? what is causing these hard drives to freeze and why is the SATA 3 slower than the SATA 2?

Help is much appreciated. Cheers all :)
 
Up the RAM voltage to 1.65v. I have a feeling it may be because you've filled up all the DIMM slots.

The SATA 3 ports on the X58 boards are not controlled by the X58 chipset, instead they are controlled by Marvell chips, which as you can see are absolutely rubbish, so go back to the SATA 2 ports.

I would also try a single SSD drive and see how it goes. I've seen quite a lot of problems with the Agility 3 drives, although newer firmwire does seem to be helping.
 
Well the ram seems to be stable, mem test is stable at 1.6v. Would the DIMM Slots be affecting the stability of the hard drives? yeah i am worried that i am going to have to send one of these hdd's back :\ last resort though
 
The build isn't for me, its for my uncles music studio. Basically he needs a nippy future proof PC. I did warn him off 24gigs of ram as it is unessasary but he wanted it as money was no object for him. I don't want or need to overclock it, just has to be stable a 6 core pc at 3.3ghz is plenty. Yeah the m4 might be an option if i can a refund for these
 
At the moment im using the pc and it seems to be a lot more stable with these new raid drivers, just really annoying that the hard drives are benching 200mb a second less under HDTUNE with this marvel controller. What should the stripe size be for the these hard drives, they were 128kb under the old controller but in haste i think they are on 64kb atm. Could this affect speed?
 
to get this SSD in the SATA 3 port i had to use a cheaper SATA cable to connect it since the stupid cables that came with the mobo were L shaped and couldn't fit into the 2 sata3 connectors. The sata cablae couldn't make a difference in speed could it? surely just latency, and such a tiny amount of latency its not worth noting?
 
chrisrae said:
to get this SSD in the SATA 3 port i had to use a cheaper SATA cable to connect it since the stupid cables that came with the mobo were L shaped and couldn't fit into the 2 sata3 connectors. The sata cablae couldn't make a difference in speed could it? surely just latency, and such a tiny amount of latency its not worth noting?
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It's unlikely to be the cables and most likely to be the crappy Marvell SATA 3 ports causing the low speeds.

You should've gone for Sandy Bridge.
 
Sorry to jump in on your thread buddy, but while im using different MB to you I also am having the same problems. So will keep my eyes on this thread and hope we can both be helped...

Seagate Sata3 to WB sata2 drive file transfer rate was 55-59mbs,
OCZ sata3 agility x2 60GB ssd in Raid 0, file transfer rate to the WB sata2 drive was 22-30mbs???????
 
thats cool, your transfer rates do seem really slow though... are you using marvell controllers as well? my speeds are 550mb on SATA2 and 300mb on SATA3.. should be getting up to 1000mb though :\
 
chrisrae said:
thats cool, your transfer rates do seem really slow though... are you using marvell controllers as well? my speeds are 550mb on SATA2 and 300mb on SATA3.. should be getting up to 1000mb though :\
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Weird thing is when i ran them through a ATTO and CrystalDiskMark lastnight ATTO Showed near 1000mb read(cant remember exactly what) and CrystalDiskMark came back with close to 500 read.

As for the system,
I bought system s/h last saturday as a 1 month old built pc and based on the issues im having from day 1 and the fact the seller hasnt answered my calls or texts since monday about sending me the promised receipts for all the parts and the missing duel tv tuner+remote setup I am begining to think Ive been screwed and there was a reason the system way bargain price. :(

Here's the setup,(cost me £650+£50 to pickup)

i7 2600K Processor
Asrock Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen3
8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866
2 x 60GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD's in raid 0
2 x 500GB Seagate SATA III
1 x 1.5TB Western Digital Caviar Green
1GB Sapphire HD 3870X2 Graphics Card(not fitted)
Coolermaster V6GT Cpu Cooler with 2 x 120MM Push Pull Fans
3.5" memory Card Reader
Wireless N PCI Card Installed(crappy £10 one)
DVB Dual TV Tuner and MCE windows Remote Control (Infra Red on board) Was missing
Samsung Bluray and DVD Rewriter
Samsung DVD Rewriter (just realised this is also missing)
HAF X XL Atx PC Case with 5 Fans in total with GX750W PSU
Coolermaster Storm Spawn Red USB Gaming Mouse,matching Mouse Mat
Cheap basic Wireless Keyboard and Dongle


Came with fresh install of a DELL Copy of win 7 which was told was ok, now getting warnings from microsoft saying im running illegal copy so will have to cough up for new win 7 cd :(
 
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