Ezraekman, I did manage to get the standard RST drivers working both in bios and drivers installed in windows. That went rather smooth.
The RST(e) Enterprise drivers that came on the CD in the motherboard box are a no go on the install however, same with ones on the EVGA driver support page.
I did not know that RST is software raid. I always thought it was hardware raid processed on the X299 chipset, thanks for letting me know. If I can't manage to get on board raid working I will pick up a LSI Hardware Raid card. Thanks again for all your help Ezraekman.
Just wanted to update everyone. I tested all four WD Gold 10TB hard drives with Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics to eliminate them as causing the issues. All extended tests and full erase tests passed. So hard drives are good.
The RAID 10 array still experiencing problems during large file transfers to and from other hard drives and SSDs in RAID or just transferring to a single drive. The RAID array works till pushed hard with large data.
I still believe it to be a driver related issue. Smaller transfers of data 250 GB of data or so seem to copy over fine.
450 GB - 2+ Terabytes lock up and transfer speed goes to 0. Both in windows explorer and with Teracopy program.
The hard drives are running nice, cool and everything seems normal with them.
All drives have been scanned for errors and defragmented.
I formatted disks and re made array to make sure that disk array was created properly and initialized and verified.
Nothing is overclocked. Computer is 100% stable and can run benchmarks/games for days with no issues, all voltages are normal.
I have tried copying data a few different ways, all of these copies had same issues
(Array 0 -- RAID 10 - 4x HDDs) <---data to and from---> (Array 1 -- RAID 5 3x HDDs)
(Array 0 -- RAID 10 - 4x HDDs) <---data to and from---> (Array 1 -- RAID 0 3x HDDs)
(Array 0 -- RAID 10 - 4x HDDs) <---data to and from---> (Array 1 -- RAID 0 2x SSDs)
(Array 0 -- RAID 10 - 4x HDDs) <---data to and from---> Single SSD
(Array 0 -- RAID 10 - 4x HDDs) <---data to and from---> Single Hard Drive
HDD<---data to and from--->\
HDD<---data to and from------>RAID 10 3 singles copying to raid 10 at same time.
HDD<---data to and from--->/
Did everything I could think of to stress drives and raise queue depth exposing any stability issues with array.
Test Result example on 1 of the drives WD Drives in Raid 10
These tests took around 2 days to complete.
Test Option:EXTENDED TESTModel Number:WDC WD101KRYZ-01JPDB1
Unit Serial Number:--
Firmware Number:01.01H02
Capacity:10000.83 GB
SMART Status:PASS
Test Result:PASSTest Time:12:46:04, December 15, 2017 Test Option:ERASEModel Number:WDC WD101KRYZ-01JPDB1
Unit Serial Number:--
Firmware Number:01.01H02
Capacity:10000.83 GB
SMART Status:PASS
Test Result:COMPLETETest Time:03:08:48, December 16, 2017 Test Option:QUICK TESTModel Number:WDC WD101KRYZ-01JPDB1
Unit Serial Number:--
Firmware Number:01.01H02
Capacity:10000.83 GB
SMART Status:PASS
Test Result:PASSTest Time:03:12:18, December 16, 2017 I am running EVGA provided
Intel Rapid Storage Technology version 15.7.1.1015 currently. Going to uninstall it and try some updated RST drivers to see if that fixes the issue.
Gigabyte x299 motherboards are running
Intel RST v15.8.1.1007 as of 11/7/2017. That is a much newer driver. Going to try that one next and see if that fixes the problem.
I will try a few different drivers to see if I can find one that works better.
If several work I will benchmark them and let you all know which one had the best performance.
Spent quite a few hrs over on win-raid looking around. So many drivers-- information overload
. I found another guy over there that posted he was having similar issues with large data transfers with
RST version 15.7.1.1015. He ended up doing a driver roll back to some older version.
Thanks again everyone for the help.
post edited by ChrisHaack - 2017/12/16 23:12:23