So here's my situation, I have two IDE 250GB WD2500LB Caviar drives that I decide to put inside my tower via the single IDE connector on my Gigabyte S3 P965 motherboard.
I put the two in RAID, but after some performance and random CPU spike and system lockup issues (see image in task manager). Also, the transfer rate on one of the drives in the RAID array was excrutiatingly slow (see image).
CPU usage while transferring data in the meantime was very, very high as well).
After a long session, I backup the data and break the array up to 2 250GB drives.
My CPU usage problems have disappeared, and I don't "lock up" anymore (so obviously, the RAID array seemed to have been causing this, I've heard some talk about Gigabyte's RAID drivers being crappy and causing this problem), but another problem seems to have manifested itself, an annoyance I've had with IDE drives in the past (2 x 160GB Maxtor Drives).
Windows won't detect my IDE drives "sometimes", the BIOS would recognize the drives but Windows wouldn't, they are formatted in NTFS and have data in them, so this is somewhat annoying.
Recently, however, my BIOS won't detect one of the WD2500LBs, but rather, recognizes a partial name (a proper detected name would be like "WD 2500LB 15.05R" but the BIOS detects one of the hard drives as simply "WD 2500"). Disk Management doesn't reveal this missing drive, as well.
HD Tune also detects a strange drive in the list (see image) as "2000GB", which is obviously wrong. This is one of the stranger parts of my problem, as my missing hard drive is misreported on POST and is missing from Windows.
Possible sources of problems?:
- The hard drive is dying, this hard drive is a refurb drive bought from Woot a couple years back, and there has been talk of these drives being bad from the getgo. I suppose its time has come? That wouldn't explain, however, that I could access the drive (albeit with very very inconsistent drive performance [40MB/s to 1MB/s and back and forth]). Is it possible that I can RMA this drive back to Western Digital?
- The hard drive is overheating and shut itself down to cool; this may be a possibility, I have an Antec P180 with these drives, along with three other drives, in the bottom bay. There is no fan down there, but I have ordered 120mm Yate Loons to mount down there within the week.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, this is a weird problem.
I put the two in RAID, but after some performance and random CPU spike and system lockup issues (see image in task manager). Also, the transfer rate on one of the drives in the RAID array was excrutiatingly slow (see image).
CPU usage while transferring data in the meantime was very, very high as well).
After a long session, I backup the data and break the array up to 2 250GB drives.
My CPU usage problems have disappeared, and I don't "lock up" anymore (so obviously, the RAID array seemed to have been causing this, I've heard some talk about Gigabyte's RAID drivers being crappy and causing this problem), but another problem seems to have manifested itself, an annoyance I've had with IDE drives in the past (2 x 160GB Maxtor Drives).
Windows won't detect my IDE drives "sometimes", the BIOS would recognize the drives but Windows wouldn't, they are formatted in NTFS and have data in them, so this is somewhat annoying.
Recently, however, my BIOS won't detect one of the WD2500LBs, but rather, recognizes a partial name (a proper detected name would be like "WD 2500LB 15.05R" but the BIOS detects one of the hard drives as simply "WD 2500"). Disk Management doesn't reveal this missing drive, as well.
HD Tune also detects a strange drive in the list (see image) as "2000GB", which is obviously wrong. This is one of the stranger parts of my problem, as my missing hard drive is misreported on POST and is missing from Windows.
Possible sources of problems?:
- The hard drive is dying, this hard drive is a refurb drive bought from Woot a couple years back, and there has been talk of these drives being bad from the getgo. I suppose its time has come? That wouldn't explain, however, that I could access the drive (albeit with very very inconsistent drive performance [40MB/s to 1MB/s and back and forth]). Is it possible that I can RMA this drive back to Western Digital?
- The hard drive is overheating and shut itself down to cool; this may be a possibility, I have an Antec P180 with these drives, along with three other drives, in the bottom bay. There is no fan down there, but I have ordered 120mm Yate Loons to mount down there within the week.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, this is a weird problem.
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