Avg. Disk queue length

After doing a check on the health and performances of my comp,

the program gives me a red flag for the Avg Disk Queue Lengh with a average of 2, minimum of 1 and a max of 6

I have Western Digital Caviar RE 320 Gb * 3 raid 5 (so good and fast disks)

they are only 1/32 full so lots of room, the disk is defragged, all temps files are binned

As you can see by my comp details I have a good setup, so why do I have such bad readings ???

any help would be helpful

after reading up, it seems that if I transfert my raid 5 to a raid 1 or 0 setup it might makes things faster

Anybody ???????

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 07:06:19 -0500, shazbot <guest@xxxxxx-email.com>
wrote:

That's a very strange question. RAID 0 and RAID 1 are completely
different and used for very different purposes. To think of them as
alternatives is certainly very odd.

RAID 0, in theory, will speed up the computer over no RAID, but in
practice, it usually does so so little as to be unnoticeable.
Considering that it also greatly increases the risk to your data, I
recommend against it.

I don't know anything about the relative speeds of RAID 1 and RAID 5.

RAID 1, as I said, is completely different. It's mirroring, used for
redundancy, not performance.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Hi

well it was the raid 5 that was the culprit

Raid 5 is far more complex than 0 or 1 and fore on-board cards, changing my set-up back to raid 0 solved the problem straight away,

I can actually see the difference as just opening HD and windows is far faster

I think that I shall order a raid car and play around some more,

Raid 5 I'm sure will work better on a Raid card and I will get better band with thru a card than on the MB, therefore getting even better transfer rates

Ken,

When I do a system health check I get the following information/message
"Average disk queue length is 3. The disk may be at its maximum transfer
capacity due to throughput and disk seeks"

What does this mean and what do iI do about it. I'm not even sure which
disc it is referring to, I have 2 internal drives and 3 external drives.

Thanks for your help.

if I understood all of it correctly it basically means that this is a traffic jam while reading writing to the hard disc, that why you see sometimes the little blue ring in vista going around as its thinking

Have you only one HD, or do you have a raid set-up ?, as you didn't post your sig so we don't know your set-up