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i have 2 of these drives phoenix pro 120gb (FM-25S2S-120GBP2) in raid 0. the volume is not used for the os as i feared that one of them may be faulty, because there was no smart data visible on one of the drives. when i had purchased them, i ran a test with hd tune to see if all the sectors are in good shape, i did not receive any errors.
is there a specific utility from g.skill to see if the drives are faulty or maybe some other 3rd party utility? the reason i ask is because when i try to browse the contents of that volume, there is a significant delay to list the folders and files contained on there. sometimes there is a 10-15 second wait when trying to play a video of the raided volume.
yesterday i went to access the volume for some files and wast able to, the windows 7 hourglass was spinning and the whole system ended up being unstable. i reset the computer and the bios post screen did not show either one of those drives, reset again and they showed up and one of them showed up as "failed". a few more resets did not bring it up, powered it down for a minute or so, then booted it up and they both showed up fine on the post screen and the volume was working again in windows.
is there a way for me to confirm that the drives are good or bad?
thanks
system specs
OS: Win7 Ultimate x64
MOBO: Abit IP35-Pro
CPU: Q6600 2.4GHz @ 3.6GHz(400x9)
GFX: EVGA GTX460 FTW 1GB
RAM: 4x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 PC2 6400
PSU: Corsair HX 620W(CMPSU-620HX)
HDD: 3x1TB (WD Black) 0+5 Intel Matrix Raid
SSD: 2x120GB Phoenix Pro (FM-25S2S-120GBP2) Raid 0
is there a specific utility from g.skill to see if the drives are faulty or maybe some other 3rd party utility? the reason i ask is because when i try to browse the contents of that volume, there is a significant delay to list the folders and files contained on there. sometimes there is a 10-15 second wait when trying to play a video of the raided volume.
yesterday i went to access the volume for some files and wast able to, the windows 7 hourglass was spinning and the whole system ended up being unstable. i reset the computer and the bios post screen did not show either one of those drives, reset again and they showed up and one of them showed up as "failed". a few more resets did not bring it up, powered it down for a minute or so, then booted it up and they both showed up fine on the post screen and the volume was working again in windows.
is there a way for me to confirm that the drives are good or bad?
thanks
system specs
OS: Win7 Ultimate x64
MOBO: Abit IP35-Pro
CPU: Q6600 2.4GHz @ 3.6GHz(400x9)
GFX: EVGA GTX460 FTW 1GB
RAM: 4x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800 PC2 6400
PSU: Corsair HX 620W(CMPSU-620HX)
HDD: 3x1TB (WD Black) 0+5 Intel Matrix Raid
SSD: 2x120GB Phoenix Pro (FM-25S2S-120GBP2) Raid 0
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