It shouldn't be doing that...Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
something is either wrong with the hard drive, your drivers, the cable, or your windows installation.
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It shouldn't be doing that...Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
something is either wrong with the hard drive, your drivers, the cable, or your windows installation.
Wow. Try to close all the programs you have and run the test again. It might not be much better though. Your random access time is way up at 22ms compare to typical 10k rpm drive at 8ms and 15krpm drives at 5ms.Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
If closeing all open programs doesnt work then i would just go for a clean install of windows and install the proper drivers correctly.
And definetly turn off AVG and ALL the other background stuff u have running.
That was my first thought, either an anti-virus scan or defragmenter running in the background, something else accessing the driveQuote:
Originally Posted by Delirious
Just for fun, here's the new 74GB Raptor (16MB cache) vs the old one -
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9...ache4mk.th.gif
Ever considered running a S.M.A.R.T. scan on that drive or using Hitachi's diag tools http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
Thats pretty impressive for a single drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by IvanAndreevich
Hi, BIG thanks I just did a reinstall of Windows and turned everything off and ran it twice now the results are MUCH better here's both of them;
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/815...tach0sf.th.jpg
Thanks for helping this was a little awkward and I've learn't something here, I think I'll try different RAID at the weekend.
That's much better :)Quote:
Originally Posted by kimandsally
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Originally Posted by kimandsally
Thats good, looks like its running like it should.
Your a great bunch on here, nice to have help from people in the know some forums just arn't as helpful as this thanks to you all :-)))
Good to see you got your problem resolved, now if I could only get mine worked out....
I just did a quick read through of the benches on that areca card... all I can say is holy crap.. Gimme gimme!
yep 128MB cache vs 1GB cache There's a big difference :) Thing good about buying a raid controller with lots of ports and pci-express is that it'll last longer than any other computer part you will buy. I call it investing in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer
Good tip on disabling read caching and command queuing. Results before and after.
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/7523/hdraid1xe.png
http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2650/hdraid13dd.png
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Originally Posted by kimandsally
what is stripe and cluster size? if I had to guess i would say that stripe size is over 32K
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looks like you got it in order...
Got my hard drives back from Hitachi. Seems better, but latency sure increased.
Is everyone that is useing DFI boards useing the latest bios for thier board, the one with the updated nvraid rom? If so have u noticed a difference?
The 1210 comes tomorrow! but ups is delivering it so that means a 90% chance it wont come till late afternoon:mad: I might have to go out driving looking for the united parcel smasher man.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer
Ok card came yesterday and aparently according to areca's website it works fine for them in DFI boards, well it doesnt, it only works in the bottom 16x slot when its in 1x mode. Performance with same drives and same config on the areca is worse than the onboard.
Other wise this is a very nice card with very nice feature set, im sure if it worked in 8x then it would scream. The manual is 160 pages and well written, comes with a cd that allows u to boot from it to create raid driver floppies.
Newegg doesnt give refunds for this item either, some how i missed that.
Bummer dude. I have missed that notice a couple of times myself. I was liking this card until your post :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Delirious
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Originally Posted by thinkingbear
Dont get me wrong, its an awesome card, it seems to be an issue with most dual 16x slot motherboards, basically the slots only accpet video data on them unless they are run at something like 1x,2x.
There is a 4x slot on the dfi, it would work, just would have to cut the end out of it for the card to physically fit, then theres a matter of the floppy power header being in the way, figures.:rolleyes:
Cut it dude, the Promise card that use the same Intel Proc is a 4x, how is the floppy conx in the way? Heatsink?
Like mine, lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Delirious
lol again, I don't think any mobo manufacturers planned on anyone trying actually use those slots. I have a PowerColor PCI-E card that I had to bend 25° to make it fit around the heat pipe on my A8N32, and it blocks completely the release on the top graphics card.Quote:
just would have to cut the end out of it for the card to physically fit, then theres a matter of the floppy power header being in the way, figures.:rolleyes:
From what i heave read though there are several people who run thier raid cards in the 16x slot with various motherboards, i think im goin to perform the sli mod on my ultra-d as people with the sli-dr dont seem to have this problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by thinkingbear
To top it all off i woke up this morning to an empty 200gb backup drive that used to be full of backups. Some how the data just walked off, its like someone came in while i was asleep and deleted everything on it. the partition is still there just no backups. I feel sick just thinking about all the stuff i just lost.
2x Hitachi 80 Gig SATAII on Epox 9NPA+ Sli, Opteron 146- 2750 MHz
http://members.cox.net/mucker/Hitachi.jpg
74 Gig Raptor on DFI nF4 Ultra-D, Opteron 146- 2800 MHz
http://members.cox.net/mucker/Raptor.jpg