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Old 06-29-09   #1 (permalink)
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Default Got RAID 0 running, any tips to boost performance?
Right i got my other cheap and cheerful Hitachi Deskstar 320Gb HDD this morning and have it running striped mode.

I made sure i got the EXACT same drive to RAID with and i have, both the exact same models

Now with one drive i was getting :

Min : 33mb
Max : 81mb
Avg : 58mb
Burst : 126mb
Access Time : 18.6ms

And now with 2 of them i get :

Min : 87mb
Max : 160mb
Avg : 135mb
Burst : 134mb
Access Time : 18.2ms

Now the burst rate is annoying me, shouldn't it be ALOT higher?

I haven't tweaked anything so is there any tricks for Vista x64 OR for my 780i chipset that could get me that tiny bit more speed?
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I left stripe size on AUTO, was that a bad choice?
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No idea what AUTO setting is but most users seem to get the highest performance and reliability from a stripe size of 128k.
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My auto setting is 64k so just re-installed with 128k, just installing lastest updates then ill try again
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Okay, let's hope after this you get the results you're after :P

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Enable write back caching, EDIT (or whatever it is called for Nvidia RAID. )
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Enable write back caching, EDIT (or whatever it is called for Nvidia RAID. )
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Hi mate,
i would do 2 things first...
1 make sure the drives have the same firm ware.
2 optimize disk performance in devise manager under disk properties.
There are other tweeks here and ther just Google
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