Quote Originally Posted by Grinch View Post
there is a way to get more performance out of you raid arrays....I have been doing this:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...3&postcount=66

C-N I am using 16K stripe and 4K cluster
Ahhhhh nuts my array has taken a dump.

I changed the settings rebooted & run HD Tack to find I was down to 58 average read so I changed them back again & its still the same.

I have played with Hitachi's ftool & installed COD2 & office since the last time I run HD Tack so I guess I must have done something in ftool without knowing it & I will just have to have another play later to try to fix it.

I will keep you posted on what happens when I try your method once I work out where my speed has gone.

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This ones for anyone (help a RAID noob)

I cant get my rig to install XP on my array if I prepare the drive with Partition magic 8 & set the cluster size to anything other than XP's default 4kb.

It will allow me to boot from the XP cd install/copy the RAID driver copy all the files to hard disk after choosing leave file system intact but when it reboots it cant find the array can anyone point me in the right direction to allow me to install XP on my array with a different cluster size.