Figured I start a new thread here. I just got my 2 G.Skill TITAN 128GB SSDs in and am testing them off of my ICH10R.
Vista x64 Boot/OS disk is seperate from the SSDs, as not to skew results.
So I have been messing with OCZ's recommendations for RAID0 stripe sizes and partition alignment. I am finding some pretty drastic differences in the results. They recommend a 128K Stripe on all RAID0 SSD arrays. OK, did that. They also recommend a 128K partition offset. Well, I tried that, tested and then I tried letting Vista setup a partition automatically. I have NO idea why OCZ is recommending the settings they are...
Here's the results...
ICH10R Volume Write-Cache Enabled, Device Manager Advanced Performance Policy Enabled:
128K RAID0 stripe, 128K partition offset (OCZ recommended)
128K RAID0 stripe, 1024K partition offset (Vista default)
128K RAID0 stripe, 128K partition offset (OCZ recommended)
128K RAID0 stripe, 1024K partition offset (Vista default)
128K RAID0 stripe, 128K partition offset (OCZ recommended)
128K RAID0 stripe, 1024K partition offset (Vista default)
________
Here's a RAID0 stripe size comparison. Pretty sure I'm going to settle on 128K.
32K RAID0 stripe
128K RAID0 stripe
32K RAID0 stripe
128K RAID0 stripe
32K RAID0 stripe
128K RAID0 stripe
Much more to come...benching right now.
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks