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300EVIL · #1 11-10-2007, 07:07 PM

Hey guys,
I have finally implemented my raid array and am having problems. Here are the important specs for starters.

motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Premium (with Silicon Image 3114 raid controller)
HD's: 3 74GB WD Raptors running raid 5
OS: Vista 64 ultimate

The problem is everything works fine except the read/wright to the HD's is incredibly slow. It took almost an hour to load office 2007. Anytime the computer has to access the HD it's a long wait. Obviously this totally defeats the purpose of running raid 5 for me other than redundancy. The HD's stay clicking away for hours and never seem to stop reading/writing.

I've looked all over the net for solves to this problem with not much luck. The way I see it is I either have to:

Dump raid and run a single drive for Vista 64.
reload Vista 64 and run the nVidia chipset raid. only raid 0, 1, and 0+1 avalable.
Dump Vista and run XP 64 instead in raid 5.

I don't know for a fact if any of these other options are going to work either but that's the way I'm leaning. I would preffer to stick with vista 32 or 64 if possible and run raid 5.

Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Adam