100% Disk Usage - Nothing using them

[xBlizzDevious]

I'm rather confused!

 

I've recently had a faulty drive on my extremely full RAID, so I bought four 8TB drives and I'm running those in RAID 5 on my HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL (have been using it a few years now).

Copied all of the data from the old array onto the new array and swapped the drive letters around so that the new drives were drive "D" in my system (all my programs work with drive D). Restarted and both my new array and old array are sitting at 100% disk usage.

I opened task manager and sorted by disk usage. "System" (ntoskrnl.exe) was the only thing using anything and its total was 0.1MB/s.

Anyone have any idea what's causing this issue?

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit - up to date.

[xBlizzDevious]

I've now made sure that there's nothing running that's using that drive, even checked it's not running defragmentation but it's hitting 100% active time and everything hangs when I try and use it.

I've disconnected the old array so it's just the new array left. This issue was happening before I did a fresh install of Windows 10 (from 7) and before the new array was installed.

The only thing I can assume it is is the RAID cThe weird thing is that it works perfectly for 5-10 minutes and then dies. C drive is never affected.


EDIT: Well I may be wrong there. I just remoted into the PC again to check the BIOS version of the RAID card and now the whole OS is hanging.
Whole screen has gone grey. Taskbar has disappeared and can't click anything.
Logged in from the PC itself and it immediately disconnected the remote connection but is the same on the local screen.


All specs if they may be useful:
Intel Core i7 4790k
Corsair Vengeance LP 1600MHz CL9 - Two sets of two 8GBs (32GB total)
MSI Gaming 3 Z97

HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL
EVGA G2 750W

 

If you need any more info please ask.

 

Thanks

[xBlizzDevious]

Still struggling with this. It all worked fine for a few days but has gone to 100% again. It causes corruption on my VMs and other server apps.

Someone must've encountered a similar issue before, surely?

[xBlizzDevious]

More information to add!

I've since purchased a new RAID card (LSI 9261-8i), copied data from the old RAID card array to a JBOD of drives (for temporary storage) on the new card. Then I removed the old RAID card, swapped the main array to the new card, set it up, started initialising and then started copying the data from the JBOD to the main array.

Shortly after, the computer did the exact same thing as it did with the old RAID card. Whole computer hanged, stopped working and needed a hard reset. Immediately checked event viewer and it was spammed with 47k+ "disk error" over the space of a minute! "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk6\DR6 during a paging operation."

It could be a Windows failing error because I'm copying files around while it's trying to use that HDD as a paging drive - I'm not sure. But it seems very odd that two entirely different RAID cards are giving the same error tried in both available PCIe slots. One tested to on both Windows 7 and Windows 10, the new one just tested on Windows 10.

Would it be likely that either the motherboard or CPU are faulty?
Which is most likely?

[bacon612]

Sorry for the necro-reply but did you ever resolve this issue? I have had the same issue plague me for years now. Using a highpoint 2720sgl in raid 5 and my array which is used as a storage drive in Windows will freeze up in the same way you describe.

[xBlizzDevious]

On 2/8/2020 at 9:48 PM, bacon612 said:

Sorry for the necro-reply but did you ever resolve this issue? I have had the same issue plague me for years now. Using a highpoint 2720sgl in raid 5 and my array which is used as a storage drive in Windows will freeze up in the same way you describe.

I can say that I still use both RAID cards to this day and still have no idea what the fault was. Exactly what I did to fix it, I couldn't tell you, though.

If memory serves, I have got an RMA on each of the motherboard, CPU and RAM. I also left the RAID card in a cupboard for a year until I decided to plug it in again and - so far - it's been working just fine.

I vaguely recall looking for updated firmware but couldn't tell you if I succeeded in installing it or even if that was before the issues.

My best recommendation would be switch it off and on again! Haha.