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Would you recommend using the same Device Manager settings for a SATA 300 GB WD with NCQ? I gained some performance going back to SATA driver and unchecking those boxes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grinch
safan no selling outside of classies.. please go read the rules and remove your post immediately.
Hassan, hardware raid really is the only way to go if u can afford it. the 128mb of onboard memory you can get on them really helps out too.. great for burst performance.
actually the areca cards that support 1GB of onboard ram are better.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer
1Gb is a bit excessive dont you think? I mean if u have the money, why not, but otherwise its a bit much.
I'll try to find the review of the areca cards with different levels of onboard ram. it's very much worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer
edit: found it take a look of the whole review
http://tweakers.net/reviews/557/1
I pretty sure even the $500 areca controller with 8 sata2 ports still only has 128mb, all of thier controllers have the ability to expand to 1gb.
http://www.areca.us/products/html/pcie-sata.htm
unless you need 8x ports your can get the 4x port model for 330.00 at newegg.
Still alot but its worth it imho.
As well as haveing memory it also has its own Intel IOP332 I/O processor, so basically takes the whole load off of your system. If your goin to run more than 2 drives in raid on the nvidia controller your better off getting a controller card, cause after 2 drives cpu utilization goes way up.
Edit: its only the 12-24 port models that have the expandability option, and for a home user spending $1000.00 on a raid controller is nuts when you really wont tap its full potentiall unless your supporting multi users.
edit: just read all 32 pages of that review, very in depth and a good read.
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Originally Posted by Trice
yes ...:woot:
Ok i couldnt take the temptation anymore, i broke down and bought the 4 port areca 1210 controller and two more seagates for a 4x raid 0 array.
Only reason i did is of the 6 month no payments from the egg. And ill be selling the two 36gb raptors i have.
Benchies will be posted in 2 days!!!
Hahah, awesome.
You'll love that card, but watch out, booting it on the DFI UltraD can be a PITA.
yah that what im thinking, i already have both slots running at 8x with video card in the bottom slot, so im thinking i already have half the work done to set it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by mesyn191
I'm still waiting for my payment to post to my account.. I have two controlller cards a 3ware 8506-8 with 6x250GB in raid 5 array and the areca 1210 with 4x500GB in raid5. This is in my file server. I knew went i set it up I would have to make a controller card upgrade to add more space and newegg has the 12 port areca pci-e for only 729.00 plus $100 for a 1GB dimm. the card used to be about $800. I figure if AM2 really is crap as it's looking to be I'd buy more 500GB drives at $280 each. the cool thing is newegg is finally carrying the the 16x pci-e card but its $929 :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Delirious
from what I have read and heard a pci based card is limited to pci bus and onboard native sata/raid is faster...that is about the time the kt400 motherboards started coming out..
read the link posted above. pci-X and pci-express controllers are both faster than standard pci and onboard controllers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grinch
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Originally Posted by safan80
ok cool did'nt see that..:woot: but what a HUGE price....unless you are running a server...just dont see the need...but that is just me...besides what if you want to run SLI vid cards? :toast: :woot:
highpoint makes 4x pci-express cards and the a8n32-sli has one of these slots and so do some dfi boardsQuote:
Originally Posted by Grinch
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ice=&maxPrice=
the price is $142-$260
That avecea controller seems like working as a ramdrive. I'd buy a 4 port version but I have no place to put it in my motherboard.
Been reading through the whole thread twice as it's so interesting then downloaded HD Tach to test my drive a Hitachi 250GB Sata 2.
Here's the problem I am getting massive changes in readings and I have not changed anything at all. Burst speed shows anywhere from 90 MB/s to
220MB/s the average read from 53 MB/s to over 90 MB/s.
I am not using RAID this is with just one hard drive, I do have two and I was going to RAID them and see how much extra they give but with such massive differences I'm not sure if I would know if it were better or not.
Please can anyone help to explain what could be happening, I am changing nothing just run the tests and every time the results are way different. Could the Hard Drive be failing?
Thanks.
don't have anything running in the background that could be scanning the hard drive or using it when you run the program.Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
Just tried it and still the same, there are massive changes in the graph like it goes down from from 70MB/s to less than 5MB/s inbetween 80GB and 120GB as well as being totally different, I just can't get anything to be close to a repeatable score, do hard drives do this before they die?
PS I did a clone of my system using Acronis then reinstalled XP so it was totally clean and it still does it??????
Thanks for the ideas please keep them coming.
run a defrag, type this into run rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks and watch your processes until they are down to 0%cpu, usually the hourglass will disappear also and close any other running programs, you'll get more consistent results
I would also try and reinstall the nfroce4 chipset drivers...and use the tweaks above
He is probably looking at the burst speed and stuff, which is effectively useless as it can only do that from the cache on the hard drive, which at the most is only 16MB.
You want to look at the sustained read/write speeds and seek times.
Hi there still crap performance,
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/5287/hdtach5xo.jpg
Any idea whats happening?
I wouldnt put stock in HDtach, ATTO is a much better program. I can use hdtach aren run multiple tests with nothing in the background and still the test will fluctuate by 10+/- avg. read points.
I tried to open up your picture kimandsally but i get nothing?
What are all those open programs u have running? that will definetly kill the test. And i tlooks like u still have a few background processes running.