RAID 0 Stripset laggy?
Hi there,
I hope someone has a similar setup to mine, I have a cheap 50$cad pci softraid card with 2 250GB hard drives in a raid 0 stripset.
the drives are Maxtor 250Gb with 16mb cache and a WD 250Gb with 8mb cache. the maxtor is using dma 6 and the WD is dma 5
Now i notice not only the drives get hot as hell but when they are under load, the seem to lag. Best example is with limewire. If you're running limewire with fast speeds and you're trying to watch a movie, it happens. I goes "kkkkkk" or "grrrrr" then resumes. if the nosie is more than 2 seconds long, the system lags, if it's less than 2 seconds long, just the drive makes that noise.
I really can't figure out why it does that, the closest explaination i can think of is that one drive is trying to catch up with another because one has higher cache memory so it writes faster than the other? I don't know..
thanks for reading
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