AMD SB850/890GX with SSD RAID-0 first look

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Hey i am new to the forum. umm is it possible for the thread starter to post out his steps of raiding the pair of hdd here? as in what to do to raid although this thread is to discuss the performance of the ssd i really hope you would kindly do so i'v been trying for 2 months trying to raid my 2x2tb WS 2tb caviar black to no avail and that means not using my pc for that long. I sincerely appreciate anyone that could lend a helping hand been going through tutorial online for a really long time with no result.

here is what i do to start my raid. i follow exactly according to my mobo manual by defining the raid array 0 in bios after that boot into my windows 7 x64 using the dvd and loading the driver at the screen since raid hdd cannot be detected and this where i got stuck because every driver i got has error to them i'v tried vista x64 win 7 x64 but its the same even the driver chipset from gigabyte btw i m using the same mobo as the thread starter my board is the 1.0 revision 890gpa-ud3h so i m getting really hopeless right now. thx for any help ^_^

Hey, sorry I've been away for two weeks and didn't monitor the thread. Seems that you need to DL RAID floppy/USB driver that is needed for Win7 to recognize and install on the array.

Win7 64bit http://ee.giga-byte.com/products/mb/...tml?os=win7_64

For RAID download the "AMD AMD SATA RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)"

Good luck.

@ TassadarDavid
Hey mate, those are very nice scores with CDM and AS SSD. Don't worry about ATTO - it does not work accurately with SSDs. I'm happy to see 1000MBs bandwidth for onboard budget controller. Great job. As far as why your intermediate scores were low... As someone accurately suggested you should have reset drives using HDDErase between the benchies and OS should run on the different drive. I have Hitachi 2TB hdd with Win7 for running benchmarks. After major change to the array (NCQ, stripe, RAID ROM, RAID drivers) I perform HDDErase and run new set of benchies. That's the magic sauce.

@ [XC] Oj101
That might be true regarding HDD performance degradation with HDD. I've noticed that SSDs benefit from it at least on ICH10R and SB850.

Cheers!

P.S. There is F8 BIOS out for rev 1.0 of the board that has new RAID ROM. Will test it out shortly. Cheers.