PCI-E Overclocking for Raid Controller Performance

[SteveRo]

Wow – I had seen several folks claim that ocing pcie speed would improve raid card performance – impressive!
Granted this is only one test case - only one test set up - but I haven’t seen AS SSD scores like this since I soft raided two 1231ML’s together.
I think I might have another go at that pcmark vantage record again.

Ok – so test set up – GGBT UD7 mobo, W3520 cpu, one Areca 1231ML-4G with 12xRaid0 Acard 9010 – pcie voltage was uped one click to 1.54v.

CAUTION - the Areca 1231ML-4G didn't like pcie 120, performance was fine while running but the card would not restart after running at pcie 120.
To fix, I had to remove card, remove controller memory, apply power, remove card, reinsert controller memory, reinsert card, reboot - to get the controller to boot - this happened twice.

Impressive what pcie oc can do! –



The copy benchmarks were not as high as expected but the rest of it looks pretty good.