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andrew010766   11-18-2007 at 02:24:44 PM

I just built a new system and configured it to a raid 0 setup. Running Vista 64 Ultimate. IT has 2-500 meg hard disk totaling 1 TB. IT seems my drives are alwas being accessed. Meaning even in ideal the drives are grinding away. Always doing something even if I am sitting there doing nothing. The HD light is always doing something. I am new to raid, is this normal?

Also is it wise to enable the "Enable write caching on the disk" and " Enable advance performance" options for the disk in the policy section of device manage?

Thanks


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jitpublisher   11-18-2007 at 03:12:50 PM
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Constant disk access is not normal and not related to your RAID 0 setup. You have a program (could be that Windows recovery thing, some other program, or a virus, or adware) that is running the background hitting the disk all the time.
Yes, enable write caching. Most of the advanced performance options are for SCSI disks only.

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andrew010766   11-18-2007 at 03:47:39 PM
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Wont let me enable write caching, but the option above it says it set for performance and write caching is already being used. I can click on the enable caching and close but once I go back into the menu its unchecked again.

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andrew010766   11-18-2007 at 03:54:20 PM
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Think I figured it out. Disk defragger was running on a shcedule instead of manually so it was running in the backgroud and probably could never finish since I was always doing something on the system. I turned of the schedule and set it to run manually. After killing the process it stopped grinding the drives.

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