Technical Specs
O/S Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) (build 7600)
CPU 2.80 gigahertz Intel Core i7 860 32 kilobyte primary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (4 total) Hyper-threaded (8 total)
Main Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P7P55D-E Rev 1.xx
Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller
Drives 3x SAMSUNG HD 103SDJ 1 TB drives in a RAID 5 giving 2000.40 GB
On boot up the RAID status is either ‘normal’ ‘validate’ or ‘degraded’. Validate means that after booting up the BIOS will spend a few days (literally!) validating he RAIDs integrity. Degraded means that one of the disks has dropped out of the RAID and it has to be rebuilt – again taking several days!
The machine is just over 1 year old. The drives have given me no issues until recently. About 3 weeks ago I went for SP1. It hung after trundling for a while and after seeming to do nothing for about 15 mins with no response even to Ctl/Alt/Del I was forced to power cycle the machine. It appeared to boot OK and said it was at SP1. The next day when I booted up the RAID status was ‘Validate’ and the machine was very sluggish during the 9 hours or so it took to validate. The next day the status was ‘Degraded’. I took the ‘failed’ HDD out and tested it – no issues were reported by the diagnostics. I replaced the drive and mounted it. It took 49 1/4 hours to rebuild the array. A few days later status went to Validate again and then to Degraded. This time I reverted to an image I had made prior to SP1 and have had no problems since. This time the RAID rebuild to 52 ½ hours!. IF I have no further RAID issues in the next couple of weeks I am forced to conclude that the issue was SP1. But I know I will have to go to SP1 and also that i really really want to avoid another RAID rebuild as the machine is like a snail on mogaddon during the rebuild.
I am posting this for advice and comments. For instance how long next time should I allow the SP1 install to apparently hang the machine?
O/S Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) (build 7600)
CPU 2.80 gigahertz Intel Core i7 860 32 kilobyte primary memory cache 64-bit ready Multi-core (4 total) Hyper-threaded (8 total)
Main Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. P7P55D-E Rev 1.xx
Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller
Drives 3x SAMSUNG HD 103SDJ 1 TB drives in a RAID 5 giving 2000.40 GB
On boot up the RAID status is either ‘normal’ ‘validate’ or ‘degraded’. Validate means that after booting up the BIOS will spend a few days (literally!) validating he RAIDs integrity. Degraded means that one of the disks has dropped out of the RAID and it has to be rebuilt – again taking several days!
The machine is just over 1 year old. The drives have given me no issues until recently. About 3 weeks ago I went for SP1. It hung after trundling for a while and after seeming to do nothing for about 15 mins with no response even to Ctl/Alt/Del I was forced to power cycle the machine. It appeared to boot OK and said it was at SP1. The next day when I booted up the RAID status was ‘Validate’ and the machine was very sluggish during the 9 hours or so it took to validate. The next day the status was ‘Degraded’. I took the ‘failed’ HDD out and tested it – no issues were reported by the diagnostics. I replaced the drive and mounted it. It took 49 1/4 hours to rebuild the array. A few days later status went to Validate again and then to Degraded. This time I reverted to an image I had made prior to SP1 and have had no problems since. This time the RAID rebuild to 52 ½ hours!. IF I have no further RAID issues in the next couple of weeks I am forced to conclude that the issue was SP1. But I know I will have to go to SP1 and also that i really really want to avoid another RAID rebuild as the machine is like a snail on mogaddon during the rebuild.
I am posting this for advice and comments. For instance how long next time should I allow the SP1 install to apparently hang the machine?
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