Quote Originally Posted by Trike View Post
Here is my Raid 0 and Raid 5. 4x250gb Seagate 7200.9 drives on a P5B Intel Matrix Raid.

Very nice, Trike. Is that burst speed a bug? How are you getting?

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Deskstar 7K80 SATA2 8MB 0A30356

My drives are quite old. This system has been up since 11/05. Win XP Pro SP2. Clean system and benchies havn't changed at all I think.

Ran these tests yesterday.

Raid 0 - Nvidia nF4 Stripe 153 Gb; 4Kb cluster size




I've got a few questions. Are 500 Mb/s read speeds or bursts useless in SATA drives? Or is that only when you're transfering to another port/interface? I realize a SATA I drive can only receive 150 Mb/s.

The more drives you add in RAID 0, what happens to the average seek time? It's reduced right? And why are some peoples graphs straight all the way across? I know that's better than the slope. That means they can read larger files faster. . .? Why? Better access, latency times?