So I raided 2 SSDs and now I have problems...

weird_dave · 18 Dec 2018 at 11:34

I've got the 2 ssds as drive D: purely for games to live on. Whilst gaming I noticed a bit of an issue where the drive would go to 100% usage in task manager and the game I was attempting to play would go to 0% CPU and GPU usage while it did that, for 20 seconds.
I have my power settings not to turn off drives and PCIe link management off.
I have also set MSISupported to 0 in the registry. This regedit did help, when the drive goes to 100% usage, the game only stalls briefly now, but it does still stall. The drive stays at 100% usage for a while but at least I can now carry on, assuming I haven't been shot in the head.
Other than de-raiding the drives, are there other things I can try?

weird_dave · 18 Dec 2018 at 14:07

It's the motherboard raid, Asrock X99 Extreme4 3.1
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asro...cket-2011-ddr4-atx-motherboard-mb-143-ak.html
There don't seem to be any updates. The CPU is not even slightly busy:

weird_dave · 27 Dec 2018 at 21:27

Well, I de-raided the drives and had a go with storage spaces, I'm still getting the same problem. Now that xmas is out of the way I can do some more testing.
I moved the drives to a different on-board controller as well, to no avail.

weird_dave · 29 Dec 2018 at 15:06

Seems to be neither when simply set as standard drives. SMART for both is 'unknown', which has led me to download kingstons ssd manager, seems there was a firmware update, but no change to the SMART status. Kingstons tool suggest the drives are OK

weird_dave · 29 Dec 2018 at 18:56

I can see various smart attribs but crystaldiskinfo 7.8.0 still reports unknown for health status on both, very odd! I'll have another reboot after some more games testing

yeah, used the same game each time for repeatability, no issues on either drive. It wasn't just games that were causing it either, but they make it very easy to spot.