Quote Originally Posted by Talonman View Post
My lesson for a large 2 disk array is that it might be wasteful yes, but extra system performance by makeing it into 2 drives, say 100GB and a 197GB, probably not much more speed for me to be had? That would be providing my OS and games are already located on the fastest half of the drive. Would you agree?
I would say just keep it simple, less headache in the long run for a little bit of performance gain.

I have been running my 2x 74GB Raptors in Raid 0 for a long time with np. I ran the same tests that you guys have just posted and mine is pretty spot on for your results. The only problem I have with mine is it is a very dirty system that has been up and running for 8 months or so, a good clean up or reinstall would clean up the spikes.

I am unclear as to what services I would need to disable to get things faster, nor do I really want to get into all that for a small performance gain.

I have also noticed with my SSD Raid that I get different readings from each program, with Everest being what I believe to be the closest to what it should be. There also seems to be a performance hit when running Vista over XP, at least from the graph DVnation sent me on XP vs my system and Vista. I also seemed to see a bit of difference from Vista 32 vs 64, that could be my Raid card tho.

In the end I think it is hard to bench a Raid that has a system running on it, because the OS is always trying to do things while you are benching.

I will be installing another 4x Raptor's to make another Raid 0 for my ARC-1231, just to fill out all Raid slots but it will be awhile for that. I want to get the system cooled and OC'd before I do much more. I might change out Motherboards also when the DreadNaught comes out, gezz who knows Ha !