post your hard drive benchmarks :)

[rvd]

[rvd]

[spdycpu]

Hitachi E7K500 500GB in Sata-1 mode.

[pissboy]

Hey thanks but are you sure of that?

Thanks....BE

Yes, I've successfully run an Areca 1230 in an Asus A8N-SLI, A8N32-SLI Deluxe, and the DFI SLI-DR. Also currently run an Areca 1231ML in the A8N32-SLI.

[Brother Esau]

Thanks bro I appreciate ithe validation and you're responses! I have been wondering what the option of doing that in a entheusiast board would be and have been looking at the Areca 1230 for a while now. Hows the Raid 6 on their or is it just a upgardeable option?

Also if I get the 1230 do I have to change the setting in bios for sli and are their any kind of boot issues with the card bios conflicting withh the boot process?

[pissboy]

You'll want to set the board to "SLI mode" so it runs it as a pair of x8 slots. The 1230 card does RAID6 out of the box, although you may be interested in a 1231ML. It is a bit more expensive, but there is a definite jump in speed. Talk to Dave at Flickerdown (http://www.flickerdown.com/), I know he can get them.

[Brother Esau]

I feel strange saying this but thatnks pissboy...lol Seriously though I appreciate you input and the linky you provided is dead

[pissboy]

fixed

[Brother Esau]

Thanks man! I still don't see the 1231ml that you mention

[pissboy]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/member.php?u=23359

Talk to dave, he can get you one.

[Jus]

Thanks man! I still don't see the 1231ml that you mention

We have not listed new controllers there yet because even without it we have sold a lot.
Please email me at egorbunov @ yahoo . com or dave @ flickerdown . com if you want us to help you out. We also provide tech support to our customers.

[safan80]

here's my results from HD tune with my 2x 74GB raptor raid0 and my new 1.1TB (4x400GB seagate 7200.10) raid5 array.

[Space_Man]

Well I have 4 seagate 7200.10 perp recording 250gig harddrives in raid 5 for a total of 700gig(formated they are only 233.3 a piece.

My result are:Min 49.5MB/s, Max 173.6MB/s, Average 93.5MB/s, Access time of 12.8ms, burst 143.6MB/s, Cpu Usage 11.7%. I don't know how to post the screen shot(I had to save to clipboard and then saved the image in paint; when I tried to save in hd-tune it would give error.) So if someone would let me pm it to them the can post it for me. Also my drives are sata3 with 16MB of cache each and I am using the raid controller that is built into the asus crosshair motherboard. I plain to add 2 more identical drive to the config when I get my tax returns(has 6 sata3 ports on board.) The number are lower in this program than the everest 2006 ultimate benchmark. Do my numbers seem were they should be. Seem like they are low to me but I never played with raiding before or hard drive benching.

[Mad_Man]

theyr low coz of raid5, my raid0 with only two of theese has average of 130mbps, min 80 and max around 155

[Subsider]

@spaceman if you need/want to run raid 5 try running raid 50 instead if posible ( raid 50 requires min of 6 drives ) . spanning 2 raid 5 arays in raid 0 .
High data transfer rates achieved do to its RAID 5 array segments
High I/O rates for small requests achieved do to its RAID 0 striping
should help boost performance ! other wise go with a raid 0 setup. i have 2 of the 7200.10 seagates 320gig 16mb drives in raid 0 and they are quite fast.

[Trike]

Here is my Raid 0 and Raid 5. 4x250gb Seagate 7200.9 drives on a P5B Intel Matrix Raid.

[Space_Man]

Thanks for the information Subsider. I will be ordering to more identical drives by the end of the month. I will redo my array to your specs then. I know right now my drives config is slowing me down. At least it feels that way when I am moving data around. You know what type of performance increase I may get when I do it? The odd thing is my curve. It starts real good(usually my max happens right off the bat)then drops to nothing for a split second and then jumps to where it was and slowly climbs on average(spikes up some but deosn't spike down much at all) for the rest of the test. Kind of the opposite curve than most I see posted.

[Subsider]

@ space man its hard to say but Average read , Access time and burst speeds should all benefit also write speeds and load time will be alot better than what you see/feel now! A good addon controller card would also help (much nicer than onboard controller ) and should reduce the cpu utilization

[MikalCarbine]

Seagate ES 320G (ST3320620NS) with Sata 3.0Gbp/s enabled



74G Raptor

[freeloader]

My 320gb drive...

[IluvIntel]

I have Adaptec 1430SA 4 port Sata2 raid controller and straight out of the box, into the system she went combined with 2 x Seagate 7200.10 750Gb Sata2 HDs in Raid 0.
Win XP Pro in first space and with 64Kb stripe on NTFS file system used throughout the whole storage space format.
4 partitions created: 1st with O/S and related applications on 15Gb,
2nd - 1 game installed on next 100Gb
3rd - 100Gb
4th - 1.1Tb of future space



8Mb


32Mb



http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm05=702545

[XtremeTiramisu]

Is this good for a single WD5000AAKS(500GB) in Vista Ultimate 64bit (AHCI) ?
I havn't done defragmentation yet.

[Hachi_Roku]

1st is Seagate 7200.10 500gb on Sata II
2nd is WD 250gb on IDE

[Mad_Man]

1st is Seagate 7200.10 500gb on Sata II
2nd is WD 250gb on IDE

there must be something wrong with your Seagate score...
I had two 7200.10 320GB ones, sold them 2months ago, but they were much better than yours...
heres ss from it.

[Hachi_Roku]

hmm i dunno MM, i'm using Vista and esata plug on evga 680i but esata disabled so it shouldn't be that. gonna give the new Vista RAID/SATA Driver v9.92 on Vista a try, using Vista default drivers atm