Shuttle fails on RAID0 and MCE?

This is my first time setting up RAID0, so I was wondering if my experience was like others.
RAID array setup was fine, although the MCE XP install was a tad slower than expected.

I boot into Windows MCE fine (Media Center Edition), but the install for WoW took almost 45 minutes for a mere 5GB of data. Not to mention I can't run more than one application or else one of my hard drives will click and crap out on me.

Strangley I can run WoW fine, runs great, but once I ALT+TAB to start multitasking the computer just locks up.

I don't know what is wrong... the hardware? Compatibility? And I have no idea where to start in order to diagnose this issue.

Can anyone suggest anything?

PC STATS:
Shuttle SN27P2
2x Western Digital 160gb 7200rpm 16mb cache in RAID0
2x 1gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 RAM
AMD X2 4200+ Socket AM2
PNY Geforce 7600GT
ATI Theatre Ecstasy 550 tuner card

gonna run some WD utils on my drives tonite.. hopefully that will help with the diagnosis

ummmmm..after running the diag on both drives..what about trying different sata cables...do shuttle have any different drivers for the raid controller??


GJUK

i think it was my HDs. on boot they started to click, and whrir.

gonna RMA them