Problem with drive performance
I just rebuilt my system (if you haven't seen my threads elsewhere, a Q6600 on a GA-P35-DS4), and kept all my HDDs from the last install, where I didn't see this problem. I've got two Raptors in RAID 0 with Vista installed, and 4 other SATA HDDs for media, files, etc. On the Vista install, it didn't ask for my RAID drivers, it just recognized the drive off the bat. These hard drives are exactly the same as on my previous Vista install, too, and I never noticed this issue (X2 6000+ and an Asus Crosshair).
The issue is that every once in a while, I hear what sounds like a drive slowly spinning up, and the computer becomes unresponsive until it finishes spinning up (or at least until that sound finishes, if it's not that). It's happened on boot before, where the BIOS identifies all the drives connected; it normally takes 5ish seconds and if this spin-up happens while it's going on, it takes 25-30 seconds.
I haven't been able to discern which drive it is. Three of the drives are very new, three are a couple years old. I'm wondering if it could be that the drives aren't getting enough power, or maybe it's a heat issue, or maybe one is just flat-out failing. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about, experienced this issue before? Are there any HDD-monitoring or health programs (besides S.M.A.R.T., which every time I reboot I forget to enable to check) that I can use? Could not having F6'd the Windows installer to install the given drivers caused this, even though the drive showed up correctly without them? Do you guys need more information?
Thanks for any advice, you guys haven't let me down yet.
The issue is that every once in a while, I hear what sounds like a drive slowly spinning up, and the computer becomes unresponsive until it finishes spinning up (or at least until that sound finishes, if it's not that). It's happened on boot before, where the BIOS identifies all the drives connected; it normally takes 5ish seconds and if this spin-up happens while it's going on, it takes 25-30 seconds.
I haven't been able to discern which drive it is. Three of the drives are very new, three are a couple years old. I'm wondering if it could be that the drives aren't getting enough power, or maybe it's a heat issue, or maybe one is just flat-out failing. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about, experienced this issue before? Are there any HDD-monitoring or health programs (besides S.M.A.R.T., which every time I reboot I forget to enable to check) that I can use? Could not having F6'd the Windows installer to install the given drivers caused this, even though the drive showed up correctly without them? Do you guys need more information?
Thanks for any advice, you guys haven't let me down yet.
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Try and balance the load on differant PSU leads if possible also.
Tex
Anybody else with other ideas for me to try? SATA drives don't even have jumper settings, right?
Also, have you tried setting the BIOS to allow a delay for the drives to spin up? I forgot what the setting is called.