Vista VERY SLOW with RAID 0?

Hi -

I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with Business, the
Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except my
Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration. The HD
performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk drive
performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY SLOW.

Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is appreciated!

Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.

Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!

does that sony machine have any updated drivers for vista on the sony site?



"VAIOLOVER" <> wrote in message
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> Hi -
>
> I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with Business,
> the
> Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except my
> Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration. The
> HD
> performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk drive
> performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY SLOW.
>
> Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
> environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is
> appreciated!
>
> Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.
>
> Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!

There are only very limited drivers available on the Sony site (basically the
TV tuner drivers, that's it). Do I need to have drivers to have RAID working
with Vista?

Thanks for the quick reply!!

"kirk jim" wrote:

> does that sony machine have any updated drivers for vista on the sony site?
>
>
>
> "VAIOLOVER" <> wrote in message
> news:EEC587E5-7184-4AA2-A7D9-...
> > Hi -
> >
> > I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with Business,
> > the
> > Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except my
> > Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration. The
> > HD
> > performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk drive
> > performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY SLOW.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
> > environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is
> > appreciated!
> >
> > Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.
> >
> > Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!
>
>
>

VAIOLOVER wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with Business,
> the Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except
> my Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration.
> The HD performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk
> drive performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY
> SLOW.
>
> Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
> environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is
> appreciated!
>
> Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.
>
> Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!

Just curious why in the world you'd be using RAID 0? You've effectively
doubled your chances of losing all your data on those striped drives.

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> Just curious why in the world you'd be using RAID 0? You've effectively
> doubled your chances of losing all your data on those striped drives.

The reason RAID 0 exists at all is for speed. Some configurations don't
really have any data.... just apps and caching. Like streaming video. There
is no data to lose. Speed is the prime consideration in some systems.

-Frank

Yes - you do (just like you did with MCE)

If you look under Device Manager either under "IDE ATA/ATAPI Conrollers" or
"Srorage Controllers" you should see the RAID adapter identified (I suspect
it'll be either Intel or Promise). Then you'll need to get the latest
drivers from one of those sites.

You shouldn't have a poor index with the correct drivers - should be more
like 5.x


"VAIOLOVER" <> wrote in message
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> There are only very limited drivers available on the Sony site (basically
> the
> TV tuner drivers, that's it). Do I need to have drivers to have RAID
> working
> with Vista?
>
> Thanks for the quick reply!!
>
> "kirk jim" wrote:
>
>> does that sony machine have any updated drivers for vista on the sony
>> site?
>>
>>
>>
>> "VAIOLOVER" <> wrote in message
>> news:EEC587E5-7184-4AA2-A7D9-...
>> > Hi -
>> >
>> > I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with
>> > Business,
>> > the
>> > Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except my
>> > Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration.
>> > The
>> > HD
>> > performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk
>> > drive
>> > performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY SLOW.
>> >
>> > Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
>> > environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is
>> > appreciated!
>> >
>> > Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.
>> >
>> > Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!
>>
>>
>>

"Frankster" <> wrote in message
news: ...
>> Just curious why in the world you'd be using RAID 0? You've effectively
>> doubled your chances of losing all your data on those striped drives.
>
> The reason RAID 0 exists at all is for speed. Some configurations don't
> really have any data.... just apps and caching. Like streaming video.
> There is no data to lose. Speed is the prime consideration in some
> systems.

Yeah but the OP may not realise that and have their PhD thesis stored on
this drive so I think it's a fair point to make. Now if *all* this machine
is doing is living under the TV and acting as no more than a VCR/DVD player
then no problem, but otherwise...

I always cringe whenever I see someone mentioning they use RAID0 on a home
system because people typically keep important data all over the place and
the backup routine for the average home computer is usually inadequate at
best.
--
Robert Moir
http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com

Frankster. All a striped volume (RAID 0) does is use 2 or more disks to
increases the disk space available for a single volume. And the diff between
spanned and striped is that striped writes to the physical disks evenly, and
access time is quicker then spanned volume. Spanned fills one drive, then
starts on the next
Striped volumes are unnecessary in these times due to the size of modern
hard drives available.
If people do it, do it the right way, RAID 5 hardware; hang the cost!

Mick Murphy in Australia(QLD)

"Frankster" wrote:

> > Just curious why in the world you'd be using RAID 0? You've effectively
> > doubled your chances of losing all your data on those striped drives.
>
> The reason RAID 0 exists at all is for speed. Some configurations don't
> really have any data.... just apps and caching. Like streaming video. There
> is no data to lose. Speed is the prime consideration in some systems.
>
> -Frank
>
>

I have the same PC RA830g with the same problem, it is just a Sony failure to
provide drivers for Vista, I gave up and sent vista back for a refund. I'm
happier with XP MCE on that PC.

"VAIOLOVER" wrote:

> Hi -
>
> I've migrated my home network to Windows Vista (2 Laptops with Business, the
> Server/Media Center with Home Premium). Everything works fine except my
> Media-Center, which has 2 160GB hard drives in RAID 0 configuration. The HD
> performance was lightning fast under Windows XP MCE but is the disk drive
> performance index for Vista is only 2.3, and the system is VERY SLOW.
>
> Has anyone else experienced such a slowdown after migrating an XP
> environment to Vista? Has anyone been able to fix it? Any help is appreciated!
>
> Just in case it helps, the machine in question Sony Vaio VGC-RA830G.
>
> Thanks for reading, and be blessed for any help!

Well, in all honesty, I cringe too! However, with the right backup strategy
(which you'd really need for 2 separate disks anyway) it does offer the
benefits of both a single large space and higher performance. Heck, even
raid-5 needs a backup strategy.

I've come across a number of these vaio systems that are set up that way
(often with 2 logical drives to negate the benefits of the single large disk
space).

"Robert Moir" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Frankster" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
>>> Just curious why in the world you'd be using RAID 0? You've effectively
>>> doubled your chances of losing all your data on those striped drives.
>>
>> The reason RAID 0 exists at all is for speed. Some configurations don't
>> really have any data.... just apps and caching. Like streaming video.
>> There is no data to lose. Speed is the prime consideration in some
>> systems.
>
> Yeah but the OP may not realise that and have their PhD thesis stored on
> this drive so I think it's a fair point to make. Now if *all* this machine
> is doing is living under the TV and acting as no more than a VCR/DVD
> player then no problem, but otherwise...
>
> I always cringe whenever I see someone mentioning they use RAID0 on a home
> system because people typically keep important data all over the place and
> the backup routine for the average home computer is usually inadequate at
> best.
> --
> Robert Moir
> http://www.rhymeswithgeek.com
>