

When I was installing fresh windows, i just got a blank purple screen where you usually press "install now" button. Just a little annoying because previous intensive scans didn't show anything, maybe it is begining to fail? Other times it will be at 100% usage even though there is no process using it, or simply stay at 0% usage.ĭuring windows install the hard drive will make writing sound.then stop for a while.then continue sound.then stop. So far at times I'll get like a random hang, or freeze for like a few seconds, then everything will load at once, like if I was trying to open a folder. I'm going to continue using it until some more obvious symtoms pop up. It's very weird because status is fine but the computer does behave very strangely. Identical drives.Well I got rid of the other hard drive, i'm not sure if you recall, I'm using the one that was perfect status. Looks as though it is one of the drives which is the problem. Looking at Queue Length in Resource Manager, it seems that the destination drive has a buffer which fills up.Īnd I also see that moving the files back to the original drive is blindingly fast. Moving files between the two drives mounted on the Marvell card shows the same stuttering effect. Hardly any fluctuation in read/write speed. If I move files between 2 drives mounted on the motherboard, file transfer flows smoothly, both in Teracopy and Resource Manager. Teracopy seems to stop for seconds at a time, although Resource Monitor shows that read/writes are still occurring, albeit at varying speeds.


If I move files between one of these drives and a drive mounted on the motherboard, using Teracopy because it gives a progress display), the transfer stutters. The entry Storage Controllers is in Device Manager - Microsoft Storage Space Controller is listed there, just not the Marvel Card. The card is supposedly Marvell 91xx, (that is what is listed under System Devices, and the Driver Provider is Marvell Semiconductors)) the but on the box it says Sunix SATA 2600L.
