This is the only thing I can think that is causing this issue.
I have just upgraded to a asus Maximus Hero VIII Z170 with a Core i7 6700k and 16GB Corsiar DDR4 3000 RAM. The OS drive is the same RAID 0 SSD array from my old system albeit a new array. I can't for the life of me remember what stripe size I had them set on the old system and didn't pay attention to the stripe size when creating the new array but had it created a 4K stripe array and when in Windows the utilisation of the OS (C) drive would spike at 100% cause the whole system to hang.
After many reinstalling a of Windows and BIOS resets I then realised that the stripe for the array was set at 4K and have changed this to 128k and reinstalled Windows and drivers but I have had to leave it at that for tonight.
My question is would a 4K stripe cause this kind of high disk utilisation?
Update:
Setting the stripe size to 128k has resolved nothing. Still getting the disk usage spikes of 100% when nothing is being read or written to the disk's. The spike is lasting for around 30 seconds.
Crystal disk is reporting no error on either SSD and using the Windows chkdsk tool finds no errors, I am now at a complete loss and ready for buying new drives. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
System consists of a Core i7 6700K @ stock, Asus Hero VIII, 16GB Corsair DDR 4 3000 ram (X.M.P applied), Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 ti, Creative X-fi Titanium Champ, LG Blu Ray re-writer, LG DVD re-writer, 2 x WD 640GB Black Raid 0 (games drive), 2 x Seagate 3TB HDD's, 2 x Corsair Force 3 SSD 120GB RAID 0 (OS drive)
Looking at the Windows Event Viewer shows nothing out of the ordinary other than an 'Event 4, Virtual Disk Service' advising that the virtual disk service has stopped but there is only two instances of this error and don't co-inside with the spikes.
One thing I have noticed is that when the spike happens all info of the drives disappear out of Crystaldisk info, like the drives are being refreshed.
Updated the firmware on SSD's and testing.
I have just upgraded to a asus Maximus Hero VIII Z170 with a Core i7 6700k and 16GB Corsiar DDR4 3000 RAM. The OS drive is the same RAID 0 SSD array from my old system albeit a new array. I can't for the life of me remember what stripe size I had them set on the old system and didn't pay attention to the stripe size when creating the new array but had it created a 4K stripe array and when in Windows the utilisation of the OS (C) drive would spike at 100% cause the whole system to hang.
After many reinstalling a of Windows and BIOS resets I then realised that the stripe for the array was set at 4K and have changed this to 128k and reinstalled Windows and drivers but I have had to leave it at that for tonight.
My question is would a 4K stripe cause this kind of high disk utilisation?
Update:
Setting the stripe size to 128k has resolved nothing. Still getting the disk usage spikes of 100% when nothing is being read or written to the disk's. The spike is lasting for around 30 seconds.
Crystal disk is reporting no error on either SSD and using the Windows chkdsk tool finds no errors, I am now at a complete loss and ready for buying new drives. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
System consists of a Core i7 6700K @ stock, Asus Hero VIII, 16GB Corsair DDR 4 3000 ram (X.M.P applied), Gigabyte Geforce GTX 780 ti, Creative X-fi Titanium Champ, LG Blu Ray re-writer, LG DVD re-writer, 2 x WD 640GB Black Raid 0 (games drive), 2 x Seagate 3TB HDD's, 2 x Corsair Force 3 SSD 120GB RAID 0 (OS drive)
Looking at the Windows Event Viewer shows nothing out of the ordinary other than an 'Event 4, Virtual Disk Service' advising that the virtual disk service has stopped but there is only two instances of this error and don't co-inside with the spikes.
One thing I have noticed is that when the spike happens all info of the drives disappear out of Crystaldisk info, like the drives are being refreshed.
Updated the firmware on SSD's and testing.
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