SK8V Raid-0 Performance

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I just raided 2 WD 36gig Raptors. This is my O/S disk with Windows XP
Pro on it.

The Windows install went fine on it, but working in Windows, I notice
the raided drives will sometimes hang for maybe 4-5 seconds where I
can't even move the mouse cursor. The hang eventually clears up, but
this is an extreme annoyance. I even notice skipping when playing back
mp3s. It seems to happen when I'm transferring a lot of data or
accessing other hard drives on. Is this common for raided drives?
I've flashed my mobo with the latest firmware.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.
 
I just raided 2 WD 36gig Raptors. This is my O/S disk with Windows XP
Pro on it.
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RAID-0 is bad for the OS partition, in fact, it's bad for most setups
that don't "require" the performance. In most cases, in a cheap
workstation you don't really see any benefit from it.
The Windows install went fine on it, but working in Windows, I notice
the raided drives will sometimes hang for maybe 4-5 seconds where I
can't even move the mouse cursor. The hang eventually clears up, but
this is an extreme annoyance. I even notice skipping when playing back
mp3s. It seems to happen when I'm transferring a lot of data or
accessing other hard drives on. Is this common for raided drives?
I've flashed my mobo with the latest firmware.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.
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There are a couple things that can cause this:

1) Bad drives
2) Bad drivers
3) Bad motherboard
4) Thermal recalibration of the drive(s)
5) Bad BIOS code/firmware for the motherboard
6) Bad BIOS code/Firmware for the RAID controller on the board.
 
Thanks for the quick reply. I can rule out bad drives as I did do
diagnostic checks and both drives checked out without any errors. As
for the mobo, I've never experienced any problems with without RAID.
Is there an ASUS mobo diagonistics utilty?
 
Thanks for the quick reply. I can rule out bad drives as I did do
diagnostic checks and both drives checked out without any errors. As
for the mobo, I've never experienced any problems with without RAID.
Is there an ASUS mobo diagonistics utilty?
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You can check on their website.
 
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