Intel onboard SATA RAID compare

[Charles Wirth]

To answer the question on what raid choice is the better onboard raid to use.

Here is a HDTach from my quad 150GB raptors in raid 0 from the Marvell raid controller. stripe size 64k. All tests were run with the same hard drives in raid 0

Marvell quick



Marvell long Same drives raid 0



AW9D Max ICH7R long Same drives raid 0



EVGA 680i quick Same drive in raid 0

[fhpchris]

There seems to be something wrong with your benchmarks on the 975 board at least.. Did you use the new intel matrix raid drivers?

[Charles Wirth]

Yep, I am about to set it up again to confirm. I want to run a quick and get back onto the matrix that is noticibly faster in apps and booting.

This Marvell raid 0 is very slow booting, I see the white bar at the start before the splash screen. It prompted me to dig up the other hdtachs with these drives.

[Shintai]

You should try ICH8R.
This is just with 2 320GB 7200.10

[death metal]

This is from a crappy Seagate SATA (Bad Axe 2) [2x80GB RAID-0]



Edit Note: Added hdtach

[Kakulukia]

AS u can see, ICH8R, raid0 , raptors,

and just 122MB/s

Those seagates kick ass compared to raptors.

(note= old raptors, not the new ones)

[Turtle 1]

Ya thats fast. I can't wait to see what 6 raptors @ Raid 0 and the areca card can do.

[death metal]

AS u can see, ICH8R, raid0 , raptors,

and just 122MB/s

Those seagates kick ass compared to raptors.

(note= old raptors, not the new ones)

*lol* yeah ...it's just that it's my slowest storage among mh hard drives =)

[Richard Dower]

Seems rather slow, see my sig for drives and stripe size, using 6.2.0.2002 drivers.

[Richard Dower]

I would have thought four 150GB Raptors would push some extreme numbers, 140MB/s ?...i get 141MB/s on a fresh install with two 74GB Raptors, ADFD 16MB cache.

64K stripe...if i drop the stripe to 32K i push another 10-12MB/s.

[Charles Wirth]

If you notice on my benches they dont trail off at the end, they go up.

[Richard Dower]

Shape of the graph dosen't matter, it's the raw numbers. A 4 drive RAID 0 with a 64K stripe should be pushing higher numbers...despite the ICH7R used.

Also note my ICH8R bios ROM is old, 6.0.0.1022....and Gigabyte will soon update to the latest 6.2.0.2002 in an upcoming bios update. So performance should increase further.

Even my own numbers are average compared to what i have seen others display.

[BenchZowner]

I was getting ready to take some sata controllers performance measurements for a motherboard review when I noticed this thread.
I thought I should post them here aswell

32mb Zones ( Long Bench ) tests
Configurations:

Controllers:
Intel ICH7R
Jmicron JMB363
Asus EZ Backup ( Silicon Image 4723 )

Drivers:
Intel Chipset Drivers v8,1,1,1010
Intel Matrix Storage Manager v6,2,0,2002
Jmicron from Asus's CD ( Don't have the cd here atm )

Single HDD Tests:
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 3,1GHz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe ( BIOS v1602 )
Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB ( 7V300F0 ) [ SATA II ]

RAID Tests:
Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 @ 3,1GHz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe ( BIOS v1602 )
2* Maxtor MaXLine III 300GB @ RAID 0 [ 128k Stripe ]

----------------------------------------------------
Single HDD Tests

Asus EZ Backup ( Silicon Image 4723 )


Intel ICH7R


Jmicron JMB363


----------------------------------------------------
RAID 0 Tests

Asus EZ Backup ( Silicon Image 4723 )


Intel ICH7R


Had no eSata cable here to check out RAID 0 on the Jmicron controller

[qwerty69]

Areca 1210 on PCIe 8x - Raid 5 with 4 x 7200.10

Just for comparison ok? Don't flame me.

[hipro5]

Areca 1210 on PCIe 8x - Raid 5 with 4 x 7200.10

Just for comparison ok? Don't flame me.

How much did you bought this controller?........

[Kakulukia]

How much is the influence of the stripe size?
On the p5b-d, 128k is the highest, so that should be the fastest, right?

[-el_lo-]

You should try ICH8R.
This is just with 2 320GB 7200.10

I don't think he should, here is with the same drives on ICH7R :

[Shintai]

Arh, I just wasn´t sure if it was a ICH7R limitation issue.

[Grinch]

this is what I am getting with my 2 X 150 raptors on 680i mobo:

[fhpchris]

Arh, I just wasn´t sure if it was a ICH7R limitation issue.

Its not!

Fugger should see 330+

[bing]

For ICHxR Raid, enable the Write Back Cache to gain some speed especially at boot time :

EnableWBC.jpg


Regarding stripsize on Intel Raid 0, these are the result from 2 X Seagate 250GB 7200.10 raid 0 with 20GB slice in matrix raid, just watch the CPU usage and ignore the burst rate since it varies on each run and should be considered equal.




2 X 7200.10 250GB , P5B-Dlx with D805 (not C2D), 20GB raid 0 slice

[madscientist]

i have a 7200.10 seagate 250GB sata2 on port 2 on ich7 and i can't enable it's write cache. do you have any idea why? on ports 0 and 1 i have raid0 2x80GB sata1 and my board is abit aw9d-max. my O.S. is win 2003 with sp1.

[Nosfer@tu]

How much did you bought this controller?........

http://www.preisroboter.de/ergebnis1869074.html

Around 350 Euro.

[Ubrak]

Just to add to the mix. This is running a 16K stripe on 2 150GB Raptors in RAID 0, interesting part is the first 60GB is at windows default cluster size and after that I made it 16K cluster sizes. Running a e6600 at stock 2.4Ghz speed on evga 680i board using SATA ports 1&2, currently.





Quicktest version with same setup.




Pretty happy with that result, based on what I see here.

[syne_24]

this is what I am getting with my 2 X 150 raptors on 680i mobo:

yours is on point, usually 150-155 is about right for dual. I dont know why fugger's seems kinda low on the 680i. I had raid on nforce before, I thought it was pretty decent. It was consistent with short or long test. The 680i should be better than its previous.

I was hoping the abit/dfi 680i would be better or close to this.

short:


long: