Serious Help Needed

[louandgra]

Hi there

Got 2 x Raptors 74gb running in Stripe Mode and have done for about 18 months with no problems.

However, been noticing a bit of a slow down recently and in the Raid Bios on bootup I noticed it said on one of the drives:

Error Occured (0)

I ran a few tests, unplugged cables, checked power and everything is fine. However done a HD Tune this morning and the transfer rates have squandered badly to:

Minimum - 2.6 MB Sec
Max - 16.5 MB Sec

Average 6.7 MB

Access time 16.9
Burst Rate 20.8


No idea, can anyone help?

 

[louandgra]

OK I uninstalled the Raid Drive in System settings and let Windows reinstall the drive again. Got improved drive transfer rate but I think the minimums are way too slow.

Minimum
1.9 Mb/Sec

Max
104.2MB/Sec

Average 8.7 ms

Burst Rate
99.0 MB/Sec

CPU Usage
38.6%

Any ideas?

 

[louandgra]

No, no funny noises, I backed up my PC - dont have much installed on it anyway and basically disbanded the array and started all over again. The raptors now dont have any errors in the raid bios but I gotta install Vista again which I am now having problems with as the comp wont boot up from CD for some reason - what a day.