Music skips with harddrive activity

[mack]

Some of you may remember that my WD Raptor HDD died, and I had to switch over to a new HDD. I went with a 500GB Samsung Harddrive.

But I'm having this weird issue. First off, I have -four- harddrives. My music is stored on my second harddrive, not my primary. When ever I'm doing anything that would cause harddrive usage, if it's defragging, installing a program, etc my music will skip. The weird thing is, my second harddrive isn't getting the activity so it shouldn't be happening.

Since I have USB speakers, I switched it over to my headset which is my Auzentech sound card. Same issue, except it gives random static.

What is going on? I never had this issue with my Raptor.

 

[willsko87]

How often does it skip?

 

[mack]

How often does it skip?

Only during harddrive activities like installing programs or defragging. Not sure that this could cause music to skip. And I have a dual core so it's not like my CPU can't handle it. I am running Win7.

 

[brady]

sounds soooo familiar for some reason.... Think it had something to do with power or something.

I'll look for it

 

[mack]

sounds soooo familiar for some reason.... Think it had something to do with power or something.

I'll look for it

Hmm, this reminds me. I have a FSP Group 500 Watt PSU. It's about 5 or 6 years old, the best PSU I've owned. But I wonder if that's my issue? I know the fan inside of it is basically shot, it's so loud right now it's unbelievable (I ordered a new fan). So I'm wondering if maybe the fan is making my PSU hotter and the voltage is decreasing? Or I simply don't have the power to run this many harddrives? I mean, technically, only two of them were connected. The other one is a external USB.

But now I have three, I ran OpenSuse and didn't have any issues like that.

 

[Jayce]

But now I have three, I ran OpenSuse and didn't have any issues like that.

No issues whatsoever in OpenSuSE? Did you do anything really intensive that put a load on the hard drive, similar to the load you put on it when defragging in Windows?

I find it hard to believe the OS would have a factor in this. I was almost for sure suspecting hardware failure of some sort, whether it's the drive, the motherboard pushing out a bad signal in the data cable, or the power supply over/under feeding it power to the hdd.

 

[mack]

Not yet, I haven't been back on Linux since. I truthfully think it may just be my PSU. Have to do my work on Windows, then I recompile on Linux... =)

What Linux distro do you use?

 

[brady]

You can attempt to test the psu issue, but honestly I'm not sure how reliable the test would be.
I still can't find the thread and would hate to say it's one thing when it's not...

 

[mack]

Can I get the HDD voltage? Is there a program that actively updates?

 

[brady]

I'm not sure to be honest, I could poke around the internet to find one but I wouldn't be able to say it will find what you're looking for.