https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/x-25m-ssd-s-in-ich7r-raid-0-win2k3-virtual-server-drive-activity/m-p/2762#M2624 <P>I've set up a pair of X-25M 80GB G2's in a RAID 0 array on an ICH7R controller as a <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":anguished_face:">😧</span> (non-system) drive and everything is working great.</P><P></P><P>I'm using the array to run 3 Virtual Servers on a Windows 2003 Server host and the performance is great. What is strange is that the drive activity light is staying on continuously. Before doing this upgrade, I was running everything on a single X-25M, with the exact same configuration otherwise and the drive activity light flashed as one would expect.</P><P></P><P>I've noticed this when running Virtual Server on other RAID arrays, so I don't think this is specific to the SSDs, but what has me worried is that if the server is doing continous disk I/O (writes in particular), that I'm going to wear out the drives! I have no evidence of that, but does anyone have experience with this configuration that can make me feel any better? Unfortunately, the SSD Toolbox won't work on drives in a RAID array, so I can't validate what's really going on by looking at the SMART data.</P> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:10:54 GMT idata 2009-12-05T06:10:54Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/x-25m-ssd-s-in-ich7r-raid-0-win2k3-virtual-server-drive-activity/m-p/2762#M2624 <P>I've set up a pair of X-25M 80GB G2's in a RAID 0 array on an ICH7R controller as a <span class="lia-unicode-emoji" title=":anguished_face:">😧</span> (non-system) drive and everything is working great.</P><P></P><P>I'm using the array to run 3 Virtual Servers on a Windows 2003 Server host and the performance is great. What is strange is that the drive activity light is staying on continuously. Before doing this upgrade, I was running everything on a single X-25M, with the exact same configuration otherwise and the drive activity light flashed as one would expect.</P><P></P><P>I've noticed this when running Virtual Server on other RAID arrays, so I don't think this is specific to the SSDs, but what has me worried is that if the server is doing continous disk I/O (writes in particular), that I'm going to wear out the drives! I have no evidence of that, but does anyone have experience with this configuration that can make me feel any better? Unfortunately, the SSD Toolbox won't work on drives in a RAID array, so I can't validate what's really going on by looking at the SMART data.</P> Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:10:54 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/x-25m-ssd-s-in-ich7r-raid-0-win2k3-virtual-server-drive-activity/m-p/2762#M2624 idata 2009-12-05T06:10:54Z