chew,
I have a question for you...on the first set of benches your everest scores for read and write are like 1700 apart but on later benches they are very close...what settings do you tweak to get write higher and more equal to the read bench ....it seems to me that i used to have closer scores using the same hard drives that i have now...
mine are like 2000 apart an as i remember they used to be a few hundred apart...
i even reinstalled vista on a single raptor 36gig and the benches are close to the same as on my raid 0 setup....just kinda curious .....
maybe it was on my abit ax78 but i know they were closer....my son and i who is 15 have bench offs and i hate looseing to him as we both run the same type of rigs....lol