Here's the new benchmarks for those interested. These were performed using the hardware RAID-0 of the ICH10R chip(in this case on a Gigabyte EX58-UD5 motherboard). I did the full benchmarks for h2benchw and HDTach using all available stripe choices. It appears that the ideal stripe size for these boxes are 16k. Since there was so many results, I decided to provide zip files of them instead of pasting it all here. The 16k stripe benchmarks for h2benchw are show below.
I did install Windows XP Pro on the box. This thing is so freakin' fast I can't believe it. I updated a program, and the update screen flashed so fast that I didn't even realize the program updated. I was able to install Windows XP in less than 10 minutes, then upgrade from SP2 to SP3 in 117 seconds. That's just AMAZING!
Ok, here's the results for 16k stripe size.....
nterface transfer rate w/ block size 128 sectors at 0.0% of capacity:
Sequential read rate medium (w/out delay): 304925 KByte/s
Sequential transfer rate w/ read-ahead (delay: 0.23 ms): 311081 KByte/s
Repetitive sequential read ("core test"): 304936 KByte/s
Sequential write rate medium (w/out delay): 262211 KByte/s
Sequential transfer rate write cache (delay: 0.27 ms): 266516 KByte/s
Repetitive sequential write: 261967 KByte/s
Sustained transfer rate (block size: 128 sectors):
Reading: average 306144.9, min 285985.0, max 309198.2 [KByte/s]
Writing: average 262580.0, min 243938.3, max 265505.7 [KByte/s]
Random access read: average 0.05, min 0.04, max 0.06 [ms]
Random access write: average 0.05, min 0.04, max 0.06 [ms]
Random access read (<504 MByte): average 0.05, min 0.04, max 0.06 [ms]
Random access write (<504 MByte): average 0.05, min 0.04, max 2.56 [ms]
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