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RAID Slowing Down?
Name: Symbios Date: June 1, 2004 at 12:59:14 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Pro CPU/Ram: AMD Barton 2600+ 1024 M
Comment:
My PC is only four days old, I built it my self and I created a RAID 0 array using two 40GB 7200RPM Hard Drives.
The first two days everything was extremely fast, when it loaded the desktop all the taskbar programs and the desktop icons were just “there”, no waiting for them to load or anything. But now it’s just as slow as my other computer with a single drive. And about every 2 minutes it freezes up for a second. What do you think is happening?
By the way my RAID card is a (CHEAP, but it had great reviews) Koutech ATA133 with a SiS Sil0680 chip on it (Which apparently is a GREAT chip according to storagereview.com).
Name: lefty2053 Date: June 2, 2004 at 05:25:56 Pacific
Reply:
Did you do a fresh install of the OS? Which OS are you using? Might check all cables and cards in the PC for tightness. Also ,do you have anything else running at startup that could slow it down? Think about the last few things you installed. Could be any one of those.
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Response Number 2
Name: Symbios Date: June 2, 2004 at 22:00:58 Pacific
Reply:
Let's see, Fresh, Win2K Pro, Cables are tight, and installed nothing before this happened. :)
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