Constant HD Stopping

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Trying to troubleshoot a computer from work as it constantly has issues with data reading / writting . The PC is as follows .

PHP:
Processor 1 (ID = 0)
Number of cores		1
Number of threads	2 (max 2)
Name			Intel Xeon
Codename		Prestonia
Specification		Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz
Package			Socket 604 mPGA (platform ID = 1h)
CPUID			F.2.7
Extended CPUID		F.2
Brand ID		11
Core Stepping		C1
Technology		0.13 um
Core Speed		3057.0 MHz (23.0 x 132.9 MHz)
Rated Bus speed		531.6 MHz
Stock frequency		3066 MHz
Instructions sets	MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache		8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache		12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache		512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control		no

Processor 2 (ID = 3)
Number of cores		1
Number of threads	2 (max 2)
Name			Intel Xeon
Codename		Prestonia
Specification		Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz
Package			Socket 604 mPGA (platform ID = 1h)
CPUID			F.2.7
Extended CPUID		F.2
Brand ID		11
Core Stepping		C1
Technology		0.13 um
Core Speed		3057.0 MHz (23.0 x 132.9 MHz)
Rated Bus speed		531.6 MHz
Stock frequency		3066 MHz
Instructions sets	MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache		8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64-byte line size
Trace cache		12 Kuops, 8-way set associative
L2 cache		512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control		no

From what I know it's supposed to be a Quad, and not a dual, unless i'm reading this wrong.

The machine also has a Video Toaster [3] card, which is a part of the system so we can do live broadcast (but not so live if the machine constantly stops working, and continues when it tries catching up).

The graphics card is a GeForce FX 5500 , although I doubt it might have anything to do with data from reading/writting.

Now here's the HD information . . . . could it just be bad hard drives although .

PHP:
      Drive: C:
 Free Space: 154.8 GB
Total Space: 190.8 GB
File System: NTFS
      Model: WDC WD2000JB-00GVC0

      Drive: D:
 Free Space: 265.4 GB
Total Space: 560.0 GB
File System: NTFS
      Model: FUJITSU MAU3147NC SCSI Disk Device

There are a few of the fujitsu drives in the machine which correspond with this raid card.

PHP:
RAID Controller
bus 3 (0x03), device 3 (0x03), function 0 (0x00)
Common header
	Vendor ID		0x9005
	Model ID		0x809E
	Revision ID		0x03
	PI			0x00
	SubClass		0x04
	BaseClass		0x01
	Cache Line		0x10
	Latency			0x40
	Header			0x00
PCI header
	Address 0 (port)	0x00002000
	Address 1 (memory)	0xFC9F0000
	Address 3 (port)	0x00002400
	Subvendor ID		0x9005
	Subsystem ID		0xFFFF
	Int. Line		0x1A
	Int. Pin		0x01

Hope thats enough information to help me out with figuring out what I can do to possibly improve the performance of the machine, as I wish it would be more reliable for our upcoming live events and news for our tv station. Thanks . - Stephen
 
k, just a side note that if it were dying wouldn't the whole raid not work anymore since its more then one drive ? I'll try it as soon as I get this file transfered to another computer, and will post results then.
 
The only drive it is seeing the C: drive which isn't the FUJUTSI drives, it lists 3 drives as nothing in HDD Health. THE WD is fine.
 
Its only 1 Drive Because of RAID. All Software Programs will See it this way. Since it combines Many Drives into one.

What were the Chkdsk results?
 
Well the thing is, its only showing WD drive (C: drive , 186 gig drive) like I said before, and not the FUJUTSI which is a seperate drive in itself ( D: drive ) . Will post CHKDSK results as soon as I can get it done (just was letting you know that HDD Health wasn't showing the E: drive(s) , might need a different software to diagonose it) .
 
C: Drive CHKDSK Results
PHP:
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

 195350368 KB total disk space.
  36648424 KB in 46376 files.
     18504 KB in 4178 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    138476 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 158544964 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  48837592 total allocation units on disk.
  39636241 allocation units available on disk.

D: Drive CHKDSK Results
PHP:
Volume label is Video Drive.

WARNING!  F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.

 573487103 KB total disk space.
 270643800 KB in 2577 files.
      1392 KB in 50 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
     88151 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 302753760 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
 143371775 total allocation units on disk.
  75688440 allocation units available on disk.
 
Can't post results of that as it went by too fast, so far can't tell if it's helped neither yet . Will have to report back when I run into the issue again (probably next 5 minutes if it does anything while I run the Newtek VT [3] ).
 
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