I moved the Raid out to my bench for some runs. Here it is with only 7 SSD's installed. It will be 9 next week and that should cap out the ARC-1231ML Bandwidth.

As my Core i7 965 has arrived I am just waiting on a MB and RAM and I will throw this Raid on that setup for some real benches. I am just using what O had handly here for this, more will change later. I still have a QX9770, QX9650 to put under phase and LN2.

So no OC yet, just a baseline run with PCMark05 to see how the Raid is doing. Not too bad of a HDD score, but I can do much better when 2 other SSD’s come back. I should be hitting 70k or so then.



So how fast does this baby boot up ?
This video is from a cold boot. I have to figure how to turn off that dang Floppy Disk check, so I hit F1 there. You will then see it go to Initialization of the ARC-1231ML which is a pain as it takes a few seconds, it will pause when its ready for 5 seconds so if you need to get into the Controller card’s BIOS you can hit F6, I hit ESC to bypass this 5 second wait. Then off it goes and your on the desktop.

There are what seems like some delays there in the boot, but notice when the Vista Logo is shown, what normal is next is Windows Is Starting Up. This happens so fast that both sounds play at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3902-UKRBlQ