Please help me with RAID 0

[spooky617]

I need a little help please,
I have a Soyo KT400 Ultra Black motherboard,
I am running AthlonXP 1900+ processor
with PC3200 512MB Samsung memory,
GeForce4 Ti 4600 video card,
and a 60GB WD 7200rpm drive on Primary IDE
DVDRom 16x Toshiba on Primary IDE ( Slave )
LiteOn 32x CDRW on Secondary IDE
ZipDrive on Secondary IDE ( Slave )
Netgear NIC ( because the on board nic is not working well, very slow, Rhino II nic )
TurtleBeach Santa Cruize sound card
and a WinTV FM TV Card

Since I have heard that alot of people use the RAID 0 to help them capture video, since it is supposed to aquire the data alot faster then regular IDE. So i have decided to set up the RAID that is built in on the motherboard ( it is a HighPoint RAID chip that is on the board ), i have set up two Hard Drives, one is the IBM 40GB 7200 ATA100 & the other is a WD 40GB 7200 ATA100, i connected them, then i installed the software that came with the board & it allowed me to configure the RAID 0. Everything is working, the drives show up under windows as one drive ( about 76GB ) but the problem I am having is that when I capture video into those drives & then play it back it looks as if the drives would freeze up for a sec or two every 30 seconds or so, the video would freeze up during playback. I decided then to capture onto my reg IDE drive & I had no problems at all.
What could be the problem?
Please help.
Thank you

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

are they set as master+slave on the same controller? (connector)

that might cause some latency problems i think....

 

[MichaelD]

Do you have both drives set as Master? They should be.
Do you have each drive on it's own channel? (One drive per cable) They should be.

Try recreating the array in the BIOS instead of thru Windows w/that utility...I neverr liked those Widows-based utilities for onboard raid. REformat the array thru Windows explorer and try it again.

 

[spooky617]

Both drives are on its own IDE & they both are Masters
I will try to get the RAID done through the Bios instead of WIndows
Thanx

 

[Johneverd]

Back up your data first, as setting up the RAID in the BIOS will require you to re-partition and format.

 

[spooky617]

I did the set up from BIOS, reformated the HDs using NTFS & I went to try capturing into that drive, well I get the same results, I get alot of frame loss & the picture freezes.
What I noticed is that when the frames get lost it seems that the HDs activity gets higher then normal, I would assume that something is chocking the HDs but I am not sure what would cause this.
Does anyone have any idea?
Thanx

 

[dmhinz]

For "Optimal" RAID performance you should IDENTICAL matching drives - at least that's what the manuals say...

I can not believe that using 40GB 7,200 drives from different manufactures would cause you to loose frames like you are describing however.

I am a big fan of the HighPoint controllers so I don't think that is the problem. What are you using to capture your video? I guess that potentially that could be the cause of your problem - maybe it has an issue w/ RAID. Also, check to make sure you have the latest RAID drivers installed. You can also check the log in the RAID utility - maybe something shows up there.

Personally, I use dual Western Digital 120GB SE drives on a HighPoint 1520 SATA controlled (with converters) and capture using Pinnacle Studio 7. I get great results capturing DV.

-D

 

[Viper96720]

I would say it's the different hard drives.