RAID controller Card

HatMan · 19 Oct 2009 at 13:14

Hi All,

My TPower I45 never remains stable with a RAID array. It will run perfectly for a week or two then fall over. I then switched over to the MArvell RAID controller which fell over the same day. I bought a pair of brand new RE3's and they fell over with 4 days. Switching back to non RAID and all is well but slower. I want to use a external device, i.e PCIe SATA RAID controller. Can anyone recommend one for me that does RAID 0,1 and 1+0.

Thanks

HatMan · 19 Oct 2009 at 20:42

Dude that card is £620 odd!!!!

My mobo has the latest Intel drivers from GURU3D and it still fails after a while. I get ace performance but it doesn't take long for something to go wrong and it falls over.

I want card that can do 1+0 that's less than £100.

HatMan · 19 Oct 2009 at 20:42

Oh and no the board is not overclocked at all.

HatMan · 19 Oct 2009 at 21:59

Well as far as I can tell the same thing happens everytime.

I am using the PC for gaming, surfing whatever. I have to switch my PC off in the night as it is too close to my bed. The next boot up if it fails will result in a missing operating system message. If I am lucky Vista will fix itself by asking it repair itself, however most of the time I need to format and start over as the fault is not always curable. I have tried other RE3's and the same thing happens. It has never died "fallen over" when in use always at a reboot.

HatMan · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:20

Well to be honest, I always suspect my mobo for everything that goes wrong, as well as myself. I run an E8600 which I cannot clock past 3.5GHz without it having a fit. My RAM won't run at 1066 for long. A restart ussually puts it back to 800MHz. I have tried numerous settings for OC from other people and get nowhere.

Yes I have tried formatting, writing zero, low level, force factory, and new RE3 and still get the issue. I have not tried RAID in Win 7 though as I am running RC Build 6100. It falls over no and then but that's the OS in beta so I don't whine about it.

Will the OS make any difference to RAID stability?

MEMTEST says my RAM is fine. WD diagnostics says my RE3's are all fine. ICH10R has latest drivers. If I try to install new ones, or at least the new ones from BIOSTAR I get the error, my PC doesn't meet the required standard!! The driver I am trying to install from INTEL is called iata87enu.