post your hard drive benchmarks :)

[mr2sw21]

You don't list your operating system if its XP try the suggestion below:

Actually thats about where its supposed to be. If you are expecting your transfer rates to double when you use a striped volume it doesn't. I mistakenly thought the same thing. Although your benchmark IS close to double mine. (when I did a benchmark with my raptor pg.11)Other than getting a controller card you can improve performance by enabling cache writing and enabling the advanced performance feature on the RAID set-up.


To do this go into right click the "my computer icon" choose manage. Click on device manager then click on the plus sign next to disc drives on the right. You will see your RAID set-up. Right click that and choose properties. click on the policies tab. Check the box "enable cache writing on this disc"
and also check "enable advanced performance"

Make sure you read the notes under these settings unless you have a UPS (battery back-up) you risk data corruption or loss.

mine is XP and I already have that checked and since my board is ICH10 so it is on auto. Is there anything I can do?

[james bennett]

mine is XP and I already have that checked and since my board is ICH10 so it is on auto. Is there anything I can do?

Only thing left is a RAID controller card. Like I said it is performing as expected with the set-up you have now.

[RhoXeD]

2x WD 640GB RAID 0
2x Seagate 320GB RAID 0

[PkG.1337]

ludicrous access time

Q6600 B3 @ 3.6Ghz
1x Gigabyte i-ram with 64bit xp installed

30% CPU usage wtf

EDIT:
this make more sense
2% CPU

[james bennett]

I knew that I-ram was good but, I didn't realize there was ZERO access time.Really nice. I just don't like the limited capacity.

[Levish]

I knew that I-ram was good but, I didn't realize there was ZERO access time.Really nice. I just don't like the limited capacity.

Supposedly the ACard Device was going to be out end of august

ddr2 with up to 8GB dimms

http://www.acard.com/english/newstabpop.jsp?idno=81

[james bennett]

Supposedly the ACard Device was going to be out end of august

ddr2 with up to 8GB dimms

http://www.acard.com/english/newstabpop.jsp?idno=81

I never heard of that one, it is better, twice the capacity of the I-rams. When they get over 10gigs is when they would be more appealing. By that time the Fusions will have gone down in price. I'm kind of commited to the SSD's now. (Invested alot) I figure if I get a good controller card and continue to add SSD's to my RAID0 I'll have SCREAMING throughput.

[Levish]

no, it takes a single 8GB ddr2 stick for a max of 64gb for the 2 sata port model

[Levish]

WD Velociraptor 80GB - AHCI Clean XP SP3 Install

[james bennett]

Man that has a high burst rate! whats the difference from a regular raptor? I mean other than the higher capacity. Is it the interface? I'm thinking mine has a 1.5gb/sec interface

[Levish]

its a bit higher in sustained and burst and has ncq afaik, SATA 3Gb/s interface on the VR's, I don't own any 150's and 300's but I believe they are a bit faster than my 80GB models

That was the OEM model (that comes in Dells) btw not sure how a desktop version would differ (probably only slightly)

Will have Samsung Spinpoint F1 320's (HD322HJ) and a 60GB OCZ Core V2 shortly

Got a email back from Acard with regards to their drive, its been pushed back to October, really looking forward to that

[Levish]

two different Samsung Spinpoint F1 320's

[RaZz!]

hp 36,4gb scsi drive, dunno the exact model nr. it's a hp bl20p g3 drive

[Major_A]

I haven't looked in the thread but I imagine this is a bit unique. 4GB CF 300X connected to a CF to IDE converter. All this PC is used for is surfing the Internet so space is relatively unimportant.









Proverbial HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820208418

Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822998003

Reason I went this route is because where the PC is located I was going through a HDD or 2 a year. It's hard on a HDD to not crap out in the Texas heat.

[Levish]

40+MB a sec is excellent for CF cards afaik

[Levish]

OCZ Core V2 - 60GB - AHCI on - XP SP3 - Intel ICH9R


Will be re-doing with AHCI off

[Warboy]

Western Digital 250GB 16MB Cache in RAID0

Models: WD2500KS + WD2500YS

[brianm602]

Not bad for a single WD3200AAKS.

[dengyong]

2 x 60GB OCZ core V2 ssd's raid 0 adaptec 2405. Just a couple of test runs.
Long test.

Short test.

[james bennett]

2 x 60GB OCZ core V2 ssd's raid 0 adaptec 2405. Just a couple of test runs.
Long test.

Man your read/write levels are almost as high as mine and I have three SSD's. This leads me to believe if I got a RAID controller card it would increase my performance. I kind of figured it would but, I wasn't completely
convinced I ought to spend the money on one.

[WRC]

mine's a single WD 5000KS

[felix_w]

A pair of WD6400AAKS ' s on SB600...here 54GB Raid-0 Stripe shown (rest 570GB on Raid-1 Stripe)...

[LeeH]

HD Tune: WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 77.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 122.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 102.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 7.2 ms
Burst Rate : 172.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.3%

Ok, I give up. How do you get the images into a reply in vista 64 Taking a copy doesn't seem to work nor does taking an image from the hdtune intself

[lism]

2x WD Raptor 36GB 10k on NForce 550 board.

I wont get such amazing speeds if my X2 3800+ 2GHz is'nt overclocked to at least 2.6GHz haha.

[twin19mohan]

2 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Raid 0)

P5Q3 Deluxe -- ICH10R Sata Raid