Quote Originally Posted by audienceofone View Post
So which strip size has worked best for your set up?
After a lot of work testing 16kb, 32kb, 64kb and 128kb stripes, I found 16kb and 32kb to be the best, and 64kb just a bit behind, and 128kb to be pretty far behind, in benches/stopwatch in apps/tools/utilities I consider to be important for OS operation and work, and also game/map loading.
In terms of IOPS on random read/write 4kb and other small file sizes they where all equal.

At the moment I'm on 16kb stripe, and have been for a while now, and it is blisteringly fast in real world, not only in benches. There is not much performance difference between 16kb - 32kb - 64kb, but the smaller sizes edges ahead. As long as there is no measurable negative impact using these small stripes, I will continue using them. The X25-M is a perfect companion for those small stripes, some SSD's might not be. Intel was right about this in my opinion. But I must add: This is with my ICH9R, and I fully understand that these stripes might perform pretty bad on some controllers, and that's why I encourage people to test for them selves...