I have two serial ata drives that I run in raid 0. on these I have two partitions. one is C where I have all the windows stuff and the other is D where I have all my music movies and games. C is about 15 gigs and the D is about 280 gigs.

lately when I have been booting up windows has been running Chkdsk to check the consistency of my D partition. do I need to worry about this? why is it running it so often?

 

yes you should worry since if 1 of the drive takes a crap you will lose all data.

 

oh that's a bad situation. I wouldn't do a raid 0 with multiple partitions.

Does it ever find a problem?

 

It always says it corrects the errors whatever they might be but then every so often at boot up it will start checking it for consistency again. I have almost all my stuff backed up. so does this mean that there is a chance one of my drives is going to die?

 

Grab a stack of DVD-Rs and start burning now.

Raid 0 + 0 partitions is good
Raid 0 + partitions is guaranteed issues every time.

 

If it keeps finding errors, then theres definatly a problem. BACK UP RIGHT AWAY.

I didn't and now I have drives and controllers failing left and right. :wtc:

 

thanks for the help guys. I'll start backing up and probably reformat so I only have the one c partition. and hopefullly that will help.

 

shell out a couple hundred dollars and get yourself a storage PC

 

Are you still in a position to get a SATA controller card for a "discount"?

and clear your PM box! :hugglez: h:

 

I don't know much about SATA ... is it really that much better than traditional ATA?