i680 RAID 0 Performance - is it bunged?

[scarface]

well hdtach is quick, simple and universal. not everyone uses the same AV or plays the same games or uses the same video encoding software.

[OBR]

My testing ....

[dinos22]

and is UNRELIABLE and does NOT indicate real word performance.......you will see when you do the tests

[scarface]

and is UNRELIABLE and does NOT indicate real word performance.......you will see when you do the tests

well you seem to be the only one who has a problem with it, meanwhile the thread continues around your noncontributing rants.

[neonflx]

sorry

my hd are 34 a piece my mistake

[virtualrain]

well you seem to be the only one who has a problem with it, meanwhile the thread continues around your noncontributing rants.

QFT! (This thread is not about comparing performance but about gaining consensus on whether an issues exists with RAID on 680i)

It definitely seems like something is throttling STR. If the HD Tach curve does not taper off in a natural curve and is flat all the way across, then something is getting saturated and/or throttling data transfer. The curve should naturally taper off as the heads move from the outer cylinders of the platers to the inner.

It seems like the majority of EVGA boards and at least one ABIT board suffer from this problem.

Some more Striker RAID performance curves would be helpful.

Perhaps there is a potential issue with 680i RAID performance depending on how the manufacturer implements it (BIOS/board layout/etc)?

[dinos22]

well you seem to be the only one who has a problem with it, meanwhile the thread continues around your noncontributing rants.

look like Lestat pointed out earlier that's what these "raid" controllers are supposed to do....all the peak measurements and other gimicks HD and other software do doesn't exactly translate into mindbogling real life performance hence why i'm telling you to do some real world tests

these raid controllers are not really true raid controllers but i hope you guys know about that right? if you want true raid performance you need to buy yourself a dedicated PCI Express 8x raid controller (EXAMPLE) with 2 or 4 Ultra320 15K SCSI drivers in Raid0. Only then will you actually get the hard drive performance that is good for 300 or greater I/Os per sec and some nice seek times but it will cost an arm and a let and it will be hot and loud like you wouldn't believe...yeah i've run multiple 15K scsi in the dual xeon days and i still build high end workstations with people demand peak performance in HDD speeds particularly

you guys are kidding yourselves with raid setups on any of these desktop motherboards....the only raid useful on them is Raid1 so you can at least protect yourself from a single drive failure and nothing else

what we need are solid state disks.....hopefully 2008 will bring some joy to HDD performance and main bottleneck in PCs today

[day187]

Abit IN9MAX
2 x 74 GB raptors