GA-P55-USB3 and RAID

[computeroverhauls]

I finally found the solution.

I has four hard drives in my system and using a power supply that was a MAX of 500W.  Apparently, the system needs more power to run properly. I replaced the power supply with a 1000W power supply and everything works perfectly. I guess lack of power was causing the drives to run properly and in turn causing them to go offline and the RAID to constantly fail.

[Dark Mantis]

We find this all the time. People use these online power calculators and say I only need x amount of watts and really don't believe us when we try and tell them differently.

Anyway glad you found the problem and fixed it.

[computeroverhauls]

*** SOLUTION FOUND


After weeks of swapping out parts I've finally found out the cause the problem. It turns out the power supply was not large enough to handle the power draw from all the components. I was using a power supply that has a MAX of 500W output which I thought was enough to handle the motherboard, basic graphics cards and four hard drives but apparently it wasn't. The drives were constantly turning on and off causing delay write fail, raid failure etc.  I replaced the power supply with 1000W Max output and everything works perfectly. All the drives detect properly, not a single issue of read/write problems. Not a single rebuild etc.


MAKE SURE YOU'VE GOT A LARGE POWER SUPPLY WHEN USING MULTIPLE DRIVES!!!

[Dark Mantis]

The thing is on the whole a large PSU isn't significantly more pricey than a small PSU unless you go to the very cheap end of the market and then you deserve all that you get.