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Hello,
My computer specs are as follows:
Motherboard: EVGA 680i SLI A1 - bios ver. P32
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz - No O/C
Memory: Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) BIOS default/optimal timings
Video: EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 No O/C
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtrememGamer 7.1
Main hard drives: 2 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Raid-0
Backup hard drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Power supply: OCZ 700W SLI/PFC OCZ700GXSSLI
My computer randomly freezes, then gives me the following errors... ScreenshotsUpon restart, my RAID-0 fails to detect one of the hard drives.
Is this related to RAM or motherboard?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...
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why not run raid 0, it can double your transfer speed. and give you twice the storage capacity. I think one of your raid drives is failing judging by the second screen shot. Since half of every file is stored on each drive, if one drive fails it pulls down the whole system. Microsoft has a free memory testing program that is an iso file. You can burn that to cd/dvd rom and boot from it to check if your ram is ok. the first screen shot is the standard hard where fail screen. the second makes me think its a bad HD.
Intel DP35DPM Socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Quad Core Kentsfield 2.4Ghz Q6600 CPU
Ultra 4096MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz Dual Channel 2X1024
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Your figures are all wrong. The speed is not double, the storage is no different than if you used the second drive as storage.
RAID0 has a limited place. The average user should NOT be using it.
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>> why not run raid 0, it can double your transfer speed. and give you twice the storage capacity. <<
It doesn't though. There are very limited circumstances where RAID O might increase you transfer speed but never double it.
It does nothing for capacity. Two 120 Mbs disks in a RAID 0 configuration will give you 120 Mbs. Two 120 Mbs disks used independently will give you 240 Mbs.
Stuart
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Stuart
Hate to correct you but two 120GB disks in RAID0 gives you 240GB of storage. Same as if they were independent.
RAID1 will yield 120GB from two 120GB disks.
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Whoops, you are right OtheHill. Those brain cells are dying off faster than I thought they were.
Either way, RAID 0 is a waste of time.
Stuart
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I will attempt the RAM diagnostic tool, thanks.
As for the RAID setup, I understand that in most circumstances it is not actually making a noticeable difference. But every now and then (such as unrar'ing a file etc.) it works well.
I have already RMA'd by backup hard drive and one of my Raptors months ago, but that did not solve the issue. I can say with reasonable confidence that it is probably not the hard drives.
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