Why is my RAID array causing distortion?

[ScienceOne]

Setup: AMD 64 3200 chip, 1024 mb ram, gigabyte k8 motherboard, delta 1010 lt soundcard, ATI radeon sapphire vid card, 120 gb IDE drive (system drive), (2) 80 gb sata drives in a RAID striping array.

Issue: So I'm listening back to some projects (Cubase SX 3.0) after I installed my RAID array and with only a few tracks (over two) in the project there is occasional distortion on the louder passages. I'm talking a half-second long distortion near (but not on) the transient. At almost (but not exactly) four-second intervals. So I transferred the project to my external 200 gb USB 2.0 drive and the distortion disappeared. What do I do? RAID is supposed to work fine with audio recording right? Or could there be a problem with the back-and-forth switching from one drive to another?

 

[lpdeluxe]

I would think it would have to be in your gain staging.

 

[ScienceOne]

Would that explain how the distortion disappeared once I transferred to a different hard drive, though?

 

[lpdeluxe]

There may be a setting that is overloading your inputs. Otherwise, why wouldn't the distortion move back and forth with the audio, rather than just depending on which drive was playing it back?

 

[JazzMang]

I have a raid setup in an overclocked system and have never had any problem like that or have ever heard anything like that before... it must be something software related.