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Originally Posted by clubhouse
Anyway, I managed to hook up an old hard drive and I am right now running a new set of read/write tests with the RAID volume being unpartitioned. I will post them as soon as I am done with all RAID10 and RAID5  |
OK folks... after 24 hours of running tests, here are the results! Surprisingly, they are very different from what I ran before, as this time I used a separate hard drive to run HDTune from. The RAID volume was unpartitioned for each test, so I was also able to run write tests.
Not so surprisingly, RAID5 beats RAID10 indeed, as suggested by RobiNet previously. But now I am a bit confused... Should I really go with RAID5 and a strip size of 128k for a workstation that I will use for standard office work, running Vista x64?
Any suggestions welcome...
EDIT: I attached all the results screenshots from HDTune, as well as a results.zip containing the Excel file with all tables and charts.
Please note that I was not able to run write tests at 32k block size, as HDTune was crashing
Comments welcome!
