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RAID 1 not performing as expected

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Mar 15, 20261479 views
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I recently bought a new 320Gb hard drive for my computer to set up RAID 1 on it for some added security. Installation went as smooth as could possibly be (plug in power, plug in data cable, start up computer, Intel software recognized new drive, right click create RAID 1, done!). However, for some …

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q6600 2.4ghz CPU
4Gb DDR2 667mhz RAM
on board Intel ICH9R "RAID chip"
2x Seagate 7200 RPM 320GB drives in RAID 1
Windows 7 home premium 64-bit

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Windows 7 (and friends) seem to make use of some fairly aggressive software write caching, which on my Windows Server 2008 R2 workstation (using two RAID-1'd drives), causes all sorts of wild memory consumption fluctuation during large sequential I/…

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