Indesign & Bridge

Good morning all,
I have been using InDesign and Bridge (regular) for a while now. Recently I have noticed Bridge taking long to load and most of the time freezing. I also noticed when relinking artwork in indesign the file take longer to link.
A few things I think could be the issue but my #1 thought is it could be my drives. I am running 2 new WD in raid 0. Is there a way for me to test integrity issues? Also I installed a dedicated drive for caching for all the adobe apps. This was initally used for only premiere and AE...is it recommended for bridge/PShop/etc also?
thanks for taking the time to read and respond....any advise is greatly appreciated.
Lo

Steve, this seemed to have fixed the issue....thanks for your quick response. I wonder if there was a setting in bridge that causes all the adobe apps reading my drive to slow down during the I/O sessions.
thanks again!

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