Live MB OC Report :: ASUS Rampage Extreme

[JaVa_Az]

Yesterday I decieded to see what was better Speeding HDD or the Intel ICH9. I hooked my two WD 150gig Raptors to the speedy HDD disabled the ICH9. I can say for sure that going threw the first part of the bios up USB final was twice as fast as the ICH9. I was bit surprised and thought maybe this Speeding HDD is going to blow away the ICH9. After installing windows XP pro The time it took to boot into windows was cut in half compaired to the ICH9. So those two things the speedy is for sure better at. I have 3 screen shots first is speedy without the marvell 61XX driver 2Nd is with the 61xx driver 3rd is the Intel ICH9R
Speeding HDD Without Driver

Speeding HDD With 61xx driver

Intel ICH9R Raid 0


As you can see from the benchmarks Speedy with the driver out performs speedy without the driver. Another nice thing about speedy is you dont have to install the driver during windows setup. So no searching for a floppy or having to intregate your raid drivers into your CD. You just simply add it after booting into windows. Another note is installing the driver slighly increases the XP boot up time. From the benches it seems speed flat lines to about have way threw the disk @ about 133 transfer rate. I am not sure but i believe is the transfer rate cap on speedy . Not sure if it is driver or hardware related. I would think two 7200 sata 1 drives would be below this 133. If someone has two hooked up to there Speeding HDD would be nice to see the benchmarks. Taking a look at the Intel ICH9 in raid 0 it does Beat out the speedy. Sandra shows less of a win but if you look at the everest it shows more of a butt kicking. Buffered Read showing the biggest differance with a 100% gain on the Speedy.
I was thinking about redoing this some time soon, these benchmark are only for read speed, to do write speeds the drives need to be empty. So i was thinking XP & Vista dual boot on a 160 Gig sataII drive and running some read and write tests..Also would be nice to do some tests on some 7200 sataI drives ( but i dont have any free at the moment ...Anyways i hope this helps with the question : Is ROG Speeding HDD on my rampage extreme really faster then the intel ICH9r in raid 0