Testing / comparing : Intel D975XBX2 / Asus P5B DX ***56K WARNING***

[scaryogre]

Thanks gtj. I appreciate all your help...I don't know what this forum would do without ya!

I will report back and let you know if it was a bad drive or if maybe Vista has some issues with RAID5 on this controller (if I can validate that).

OK, I found out what the problem was with my RAID5 config. I have *not* tested this with another RAID configuration (i.e. RAID0,1,10, etc), but I am confident what caused my RAID5 to go in a degraded state was Apple iTunes.

Yes, I know it is odd, but my RAID5 has been fine since I installed it 3 days ago. Nothing has been causing me problems until tonight. Once I installed iTunes, immediately everything went to hell again. This is the same thing that happened 3 days ago. I installed iTunes, downloaded a music video and BAM....RAID problems.

Tonight I was simply installing it and after installation it was "importing" music files from my hard drive and again my RAID array was immediately degraded. I am 100% positive that iTunes is the problem. Keep in mind that this is AFTER transferring many GB worth of other types of files from my old PC. Never an issue...things were going well. As soon as I installed iTunes and allowed it to "import" files it bombed.

I have no idea how to fix this (or IF I can fix it), but that was the culprit...I'm feeling pretty pissed at the moment since I have spent many hundreds of dollars on my iTunes music.

This may be a problem with iTunes and Windows Vista32 or it may just be a problem in general. I am not an Apple basher...I own 3 Macs...but this is really ticking me off. I burned 3 days on thinking my system was good...and after installing iTunes it completely took a digger on me. NO overclocking or anything else that could be blamed for the problem...it is solely iTunes (and probably RAID5 since not many people use this configuration).

-scaryogre