[muffin]

Just got another 80GB Seagate Barracuda and set it up in a RAID 0 array with my existing one. It loads my fresh install of XP really fast, performance in Windows is no different but installing drivers and software is taking a VERY long time. Is it supposed to be really slow at installing things?

Also, when I restart my computer it goes through the "Windows is shutting down" screen, the monitor powers off and the keyboard lights go off...and then it sits there. No reboot

 

[cdub998]

Thats a fishy xp install maybe. What size stripe are you using?

 

[muffin]

32k, as recommended by Crash.

 

[cdub998]

You may want to try 16k... I have never had a slow down with anything on 16k.

 

[muffin]

Hows this?

http://www.overclock.net/718800-post131.html

 

[cdub998]

Weird.. my burst speed is almost exactly the same. When you are installing things are they off of your CD/DVD? If so check your primary IDE controller and make sure it isn't set to PIO. I installed windows fresh before and my DVD-R went to PIO mode and was REALLY slow until I changed it back to DMA.

 

[muffin]

That might be something like it, I will check now!

I installed Firefox (off the hard drive) and that was fast, I installed graphics drivers off a memory stick and that was fast :/