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Hi I've tried posting my problem in the hard drive section, but nobody seems to be able to answer, so I thought it might be better if I posted in another section.
My computer has a RAID 0 drive array, since one drive started taking forever to open an application. Assuming it was a virus not found by either Avast or Kasperspy, I decided to back up my data and wipe it. However, now having a pci express RAID capable controller I thought I'd try RAID, seeing that a friend told me how much faster RAID had made his sysetm and seeing that I had a duplicate drive to the one I had been using as my main drive in this computer since new, and my previous system a year before.
Having created the array and set up Windows XP Pro on it I began to notice that the computer sometimes hangs when shutting down or in other random times whilst reading data from all three hard drives. I've used a PSU calculator on the web and apparently my current one (also from my last PC) should be fine. I presume that I need either a new hard disk (or two for RAID) or I need a new, more powerful PSU.
I don't want to spend money uneccesarily on both replacement hard drives and PSU, so I thought I'd ask if posters on here what they might recommend.
My system is as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3Ghz)
MSI Neo-F P35 Motherboard
4GB Corsair 800Mhz PC6400 DDR2 Memory
Evga Nvidia Geforce 8800GT PCI Express x16
2x500GB Seagate 7200.10 Hard Drives SATAII (RAID 0 through an Adaptec RAID Controller PCI Express x1)
1TB Seagate 7200.11 SATAII Hard Drive
Creative X-Fi PCI Express x1 Soundcard
Pioneer DVD Rewriter SATA
Another DVD Rewriter SATA (make escapes me)
Floppy Drive
500W Zalman Silent Modular PSU
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
Any help would be nice. According to PSU calculators the 500W PSU should be more than enough, but I'm not convinced.
My computer has a RAID 0 drive array, since one drive started taking forever to open an application. Assuming it was a virus not found by either Avast or Kasperspy, I decided to back up my data and wipe it. However, now having a pci express RAID capable controller I thought I'd try RAID, seeing that a friend told me how much faster RAID had made his sysetm and seeing that I had a duplicate drive to the one I had been using as my main drive in this computer since new, and my previous system a year before.
Having created the array and set up Windows XP Pro on it I began to notice that the computer sometimes hangs when shutting down or in other random times whilst reading data from all three hard drives. I've used a PSU calculator on the web and apparently my current one (also from my last PC) should be fine. I presume that I need either a new hard disk (or two for RAID) or I need a new, more powerful PSU.
I don't want to spend money uneccesarily on both replacement hard drives and PSU, so I thought I'd ask if posters on here what they might recommend.
My system is as follows:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3Ghz)
MSI Neo-F P35 Motherboard
4GB Corsair 800Mhz PC6400 DDR2 Memory
Evga Nvidia Geforce 8800GT PCI Express x16
2x500GB Seagate 7200.10 Hard Drives SATAII (RAID 0 through an Adaptec RAID Controller PCI Express x1)
1TB Seagate 7200.11 SATAII Hard Drive
Creative X-Fi PCI Express x1 Soundcard
Pioneer DVD Rewriter SATA
Another DVD Rewriter SATA (make escapes me)
Floppy Drive
500W Zalman Silent Modular PSU
Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
Any help would be nice. According to PSU calculators the 500W PSU should be more than enough, but I'm not convinced.
