Re: Very strange issues

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Perhaps contact tech for this high end card and see if they have any
suggestions as to card/raid specific settings

<bartonn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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grinds to halt, system slows until it is essentially frozen.

3 different RAID cards. One very high specs.

-Barton

Looks similar to this issue:


http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.file_system/browse_thread/thread/a08f1ae2b339c9db/75c0bbd973ec5cc6?lnk=st&q=windows+limits+in+writing+files+raid&rnum=13#75c0bbd973ec5cc6


On Apr 11, 1:03 pm, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:
I assume 'grinds to halt' means it slows
Were these hardware/cpu equiped raid cards - usually costing approx
+$350,
or software raid cards - much much cheaper -?

<bart...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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OK, I am at a complete loss, perhaps someone here can shed some light
on this.

System:

Dual core 3.2, 2 gig RAM and XP pro

Captures image data from 6 cameras.

30 frames/sec x 6 = 180/sec w/ each image about 4k

Stored in a directory tree, where top level is 6 directories
for each camera. Under which a new directory
is created every hour, under which a new directory is created
every minute, under which a new one every
second.

Problem:

With 3 drives attached to raid controller, at RAID 0, the
system grinds to a halt after about 2 hours.

I have tried 3 different raid cards all with the same effect.

With 3 drives set up as dynamic drives and partitioned as a
container across the drives via Windows OS
I experience the same effect.

With a single drive formated and partitioned I have NO
problems.

Does anyone understand this?

-Barton Nicholls




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