SSD With HDD RAID Negative Performance

[Cosmo2]

After patiently waiting for the price and performance of SSDs to settle, I finally plunked down the money for a new Intel X25-M 120G to use as my boot drive, moving the 2 Western Digital hard drives running in RAID 0 to SATA ports 3 & 4 to use as storage. Although my WEI jumped from 5.9 to 7.4 (and it does boot quicker), my systems performance in actual use is not so great.


When I initially boot the system in the morning, everything is fast and working great, but if I let the system sit idle for several minutes my Western Digital RAID 0 acts like a 5400 rpm USB drive that’s gone to sleep, and since all my files, (documents, downloads, music, pictures & video), are stored on the this RAID array it has a negative impact on the overall system performance.



Any advise would be greatly appreciated!

 

[F1shF4t]

In power options change the time after which HDDs get turned off. By default its set to 20 mins which is too short.

 

[Cosmo2]

Hey thanks! Didn't realize I had to dig into power settings, (other than to disable when the system goes to sleep). I have never had my secondary drives drop out like that when using XP, maybe it's just different with Win7. Anyway, it worked!