I have some more data to share. I ran my computer all week with acceleration disabled on my RAID 1 array and I did not have the spin up / spin down problem. After a week of testing with no acceleration, I enabled acceleration and the problem happened within a half hour. With acceleration enabled, the first time the hard drives in my RAID 1 spun down to go to sleep, they went into the continuous spin up / spin down cycle after coming out of sleep mode. My conclusion is that the spin up / spin down problem only happens when I am accelerating the array with an SSD drive. I have not seen the problem as long as I don't accelerate the RAID 1 array.
Did you hear anything from the development team regarding this issue?
Greetings Traveler6666. In my application, I was using an SSD to accelerate my RAID 1. I found that when I disabled the SSD acceleration, my spin up / spin down problem stopped happening. Are you using accleration in your system? If yes, this would be a common thread between our 2 systems.
I have some more data to share. The motherboard manufacturer (MSI) provided me with a custom BIOS with the latest Intel Option ROM. I tried Intel option ROM version 10.8.0.1333 and the behavior did not change. I enabled the acceleration drive with my RAID 1 mirror and within a few hours the spin up / spin down problem happened. In this test, I was running the latest driver (10.8.0.1003) and the latest option ROM.
I'm having the same issue using Raid 10, Disabling the ssd accel drive stops the issue.
stats:
ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard
4 X Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EALX 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1 2.5" 64GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
Thanks for the information Mike - glad I'm not the only one. I have not heard anything from Intel on this issue since Diego Intel said he would forward our concerns to the development team. I also do not have any solution or work arounds except to disable acceleration.
Since my MB disappeared during the repair phase, I bought a Z77 MB instead. And the problem disappeared with the same hardware and software config but of course the raid driver is now 11.0.0.1032.
I wish you good luck and kick intel!
When you experienced the spin up / spin down problem, were you using an SSD acceleration disk with your RAID?
I am wondering of Intel has a bug in the Z68 chipset and they are staying mum because they don't want to pay for a recall.
Thanks for the information that the Z77 chipset does not have the problem. I also have an AS Rock Z77 motherboard that I am going to install and test tonight. I will post my test results after I try the same hardware / software setup with my new Z77 motherboard.
Same problem on ASUS P45 PQ5-E - Raid 5 spin-up will not shut up as of a few weeks ago - updated from 10.3 to 10.8 on Win 7 sp2 - same bullsh1t.
I disabled cache but it's still doing it so I'll try rebooting because I have noticed that after fresh boot system is normal - its after coming back from SLEEP that this tends to happen.
No SSD involved.
Please fix ur mess Intel/Microsoft
Any update on this? I also have two 2tb seagates (green 5900rpm) and a P8Z68-V LE motherboard, and I get constant spinup when waking from sleep (only way to fix is reboot).
