New Build (Vista) Now Raid Drives VERY noisy?

Hi,

Yesterday I was using the rig in my signiture, under XP Pro. In the evening I replaced the motherboard, cpu,gfx crad, ram, fan and psu to the spec below:

Abit ip35 pro
Q6600
2x1g pc2-8500
Coolermaster 700w

I used the same sata pair of Raptors in Raid 0. As the bios recognised them I simply kept the stripe at 64, formatted and ran the Vista 64bit disk to install.

I understand that there is a LOT of disk work whilst installing, updating, patching etc.

BUT...the noise the disks is making now is incredible... Louder than they ever were before and for prolonged times. It sounds like they are straining, but they were fine just yeterday in XP. This is even simply opening a small application, not only installing.

Everything else is really quiet.

Any ideas what this could be? Or could it just be a coincidence and they may be on their way out?

PS - the OS is on the Raid drive, I know that is not necessarily the best thing to do, but it's how I have doen it.

Thanks

 

Thanks - Ill get some ear plags!

 

There might be vibration in the panels or frame of the case. Try touching/pressing the panels to see if the tone changes.

I expect there should be a utility to test the RAID setup. Use the WD Lifeguard utilities to test the drives.

Have you installed all the drivers from the driver CDs?

Matt

 

yea all drivers installed.

There are rubber things to stop vibration noise - it sint that, it is the inside mechanics!

I think it may be this indexing thing.