Quote Originally Posted by RealTelstar View Post
on the drives connected to the Areca? i find that not likely possible...

hmm
2 people here with areca raid controllers, and both had corruption repeatedly.
and why wouldnt they? the data that is supposed to be written to the hdd gets corrupted somewhere in between the cpu working on it and the memory holding it and then the chipset passing it to the hdd.

it seems the exact point of corruption is between the memory and the chipset, what exactly is causing it, mem or chipset... hard to tell, but id say chipset since bill got corruption with 1600 cas8 with a set of mem that can run above 2000 cas8...

Quote Originally Posted by MateoTTR View Post
I am really dubious about the whole "sfc /scannow" procedure.
When I run it, I am being asked for the windows XP for each and every single file. Really the popup comes up a thousand times.

Now why I can play Crysis flawlessly for several hours in a row and use my comp without encountering any crash nor BSOD is beyond me.
With so many files corrupted, how can windows even boot?
And why I don't get any corruption when I copy very large files from one disk to another?
have you never trimmed down windows before?
you can cut down windows from 1.2gb to 0.5gb and still have everything you need working. depending on what you do with your pc you can even cut it down to 0.2gb

And youd be surprised how little code is actually beeing used when you run your pc. Let say you have 1 file which is 100kb in size. 100.000 letters... you can change quite a lot of them withint having any serious issues
again, depending on what you do...

and on the other hand, for a 100kb file to be corrupt you only need to have 1 BIT wrong. so if its single bit errors you guys are getting here then that could explain why so many files are corrupt.

But i think its not single bit errors, sounds more like several chunks of data are missing or wrong from what ive heard.