Is it just me or is that poor?Originally Posted by raju
raid test, 4x wd 160gb wd1600ys raid 0 16mb cache...
fun times for this weekend benching SLI...The burst and seek is ok for those drives but the STR curve is terrible - it looks to me like something is thottling as you should see the curve slowly drop down as it moves to the inner cylinders. Your average STR per drive is only 35MB/sec... that's not good. Something is capping it.
EVGA users were having similar problems with their boards... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=128803 You may want to check out post #66 on page 3... some users were able to improve things by turning off read caching and command queing although this was not a sure-fire fix for all.
For comparison, here's a pair of 8MB Cache 74GB Raptors on NF4 (which is not the best RAID controller either) and it keeps up with 4 drives on this thing!? Yikes!
If RAID0 performance matters to you, then you may want to consider an Areca RAID controller with this board... (shown below with 4 74GB Raptors with 8MB Cache each)
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