M17x Raid 0 stutter?

ever since i raid 0 my all powerful M17x, from time to time i can hear a sound like water drip from one of my hard drives and then there is a 1-2 second delay. I'm wondering if this is because of the raid 0 or is it the hard drive. It is completely random. sometimes under full gaming and sometimes just browsing the internet. or is this completely something else? had my M17x for 4 months.

 

i use RAID 0 on my m17x and have not had this. cant exactly tell you whats wrong with it but sounds like its that hard drive.

 

is there a program i could use to figure out if it's bad?

 

Hmmm.. I'm going to clean install windows back to 2 500g hard drives and see if this makes any difference. I didn't have the stuttering before.

 

Hi Mazdaspeed

I think I have the answer for you. It was previously reported under Processor Clicking Thread (although it was not Processor related), but the Hard Drive solution which worked for me was documented here and I suspect may be relevant in your case.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5641589

Hope it helps!

Best regards

Trelawney

 

Thanks trelawney, but i just figured out the issue. this is going to sound very weird, but the Itel chipset drivers was what was causing my random stutters. i installed windows 7 4 times switched to 2 320gb hard drives and found out that my hard drives were fine. the 2 320 gb hard drives were having the same issue. on the 4th install of win7 i accidentally uninstalled the intel chipset drivers and ran 3dmark06. i got 12k instead of my 10k stutter score. therefore my 5th win7 install i didn't install the intel chipset drivers.

 

Hi Mazdaspeed

Intel chipset drivers? - I thought this would be nForce drivers that control the RAID? I think because the system couldn't see the Seagate drives (only a RAID setup through abstraction) that this didn't help troubleshooting / diagnostics - as I've not any seen people with the same drives without RAID suffer the same clicking problem (effectively heads parking when not idle) - but at least the Seagate update seems to have fixed this at a HD level for me and some others with these symptoms (also OS agnostic).

Glad you got it sorted in your case though!

Cheers

Trelawney

 

I had the same issues - which could be related to the dpc latency issue. I found that installing Win7 with un-raided drives seemed to yield fewer stutters. At the same time, disk access was painfully slow. The problem is probably due to the software RAID controller which our notebooks have (compared to hardware RAID controllers that desktops have). Also, our nVidia controller sucks compared to the Intel controller on my old XPS M1730.

 

yes i agree. raid 0 was godly on my m1730. no problems at all for 1 whole year.