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    Question RAID disk usage (Active Time) at 100%, slowing reads to a crawl

    So after about 10 hours, the problem finally fixed itself. Thank God.
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    Question RAID disk usage (Active Time) at 100%, slowing reads to a crawl

    I'm definitely going through and backing up the most important stuff, and some of the most resent stuff. Problem is, at 10+ minutes a gig, it will take about 7,000 days to back up all 8TB. Plus, that can't be good for the hard drive. The main thing I've learn here is just how bad Intel's...
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    Question RAID disk usage (Active Time) at 100%, slowing reads to a crawl

    Lastly, I noticed that even when the Drive activity is registering 0% on the RAID (and the other drives). The Drive activity light is on, (not flickering but solid blue), which leads me to believe again that it is doing a scan or rebuild and that a flaw in Task Manager just assumes the drive...
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    Question RAID disk usage (Active Time) at 100%, slowing reads to a crawl

    I'm wondering the best course of action. I'm trying to back it up to a external HDD via USB. Should I leave the computer on for a while and see if it runs it's course, like for a scan or rebuild? Disable one of the RAIDed HDDs via the Intel Rapid Shorage Technology - Option ROM Manually...
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    Question RAID disk usage (Active Time) at 100%, slowing reads to a crawl

    I've had a RAID1 working flawlessly for several months now, and last night, after a failed update that was automatically rolled back [on Windows 10 Pro], it developed a serious problem. It's a single RAID1 used for data only as my D drive. Whenever I try to access the RAID disk, it's usage...