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Raid/HDD issues
First off, brand new two this raid thing;
Well, I just got two Samsung Spinpoints F3 500GB and put them into raid 0, 128 strip, shortstroked to 500GB (or 250BG each, which ever is the correct way to say it). I did a fresh install of Vista onto them, ran HDTune and seen a very nice (compared to my 7200.11 500 GB Seagate) speed increase. But every now and then there is a loud humming noise for a couple seconds followed by a click (kinda like the heads are resetting or something). During a file transfer this did seem to effect performance. I'm curious, is this a major issue? Is the raid array glitching (using ICH9)? Any help is appreciated. Hopefully I don't have to RMA my HDDs 
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You may have a bad drive - it's almost certainly not the Intel controller.
Unfortunately, the only way I know for sure to identify which is to split the array and run exhaustive tests on each drive independently. *However*, as I was typing that, I got to thinking, the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software, that you load in the OS, may have some drive diagnostics capabilities. It's worth loading anyway, then take a look there? ..a
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Gah, wish I had caught you earlier, how do you load up this software? I thought it was just drivers I installed during the OS installation.
And curious, if I have one bad drive, how is it not destroying my Raid0 array? o.O *Edit* HDTune shows no errors when I did the error check (if it even works with Raid), in device manager/storage controller/ICH9R everything looks okay. I think I'm just gonna let it go for now. The drives have, (I assume) 3 year manufacture warranty and the Egg's 30 day return. My data is all backed up too so I'm not to worried if the array combusts or something.
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The s/w is on Intel site, also should be on your MB driver CD/DVD..
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/scri...ProductID=2101 ..a
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Sounds like a funky drive to me.
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