EEK!!! Raid setup - what's going on?

[TheBigCheese]

Hi guys

I'm using a Raid5 setup on an Asus P5B Deluxe board.
It's used as the Windows / general important data / pagefile drive.

Last night I noticed things were slowing down, this morning as it booted I noticed on the Raid boot/setup screen it showed the RAID5 setup as 'initializing' and was written in yellow rather than the nice everything-is-fine green wording.

What's going on and how can I fix it? I use this machine for business all day and I can't be doing with it slowing down to a crawl all the time.

Thanks in advance!

 

[TheBigCheese]

That sounds a bit grim....looks like I will just have to sit it out then.

Any ideas how long it might take? I think they are 3x 250Gb Seagates.

I've got a lot of video to be encoding if at all possible today...typical eh?

 

[TheBigCheese]

I imagine JABOD would be as fast as the slowest drive...so it's probably faster as these are Seagate 7200.10 drives.

A stripe would be no good for me, as I mentioned this is a business machine primarily and if one drive went wobbly on a stripe I would have lost everything now.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Hey that was quick.

It's fixed itself, both RAIDs I use are now functioning normally...and it's not half speeded up again!

Thanks for the information and reassurance during the panic stricken morning lol