Shuttle fails on RAID0 and MCE?

[green]

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

[green]

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

[GJUK]

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

[green]

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

gonna RMA them