XPRESS

Which SSD drives are these btw? im kinda in the market for some ssd's if i can get a nice deal...

DuckieHo

MFT is part of file system....

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XPRESS

Oops...I was discussing MFT somewere else and somehow it ended up in my last post here

Jaco

For those who own Asus M3A79T, don't flash the latest bios from Dell (5.2.2-0072, Rev. A06) otherwise you' ll will never get a post from perc in this mobo again, until you use an other mobo to flash lsi' s firmware back again...

It seems that dell's firmware is less robust with asus's pci-x weird behavior...

Sockman, I'll try lsi's 0051 firmware as perc is not visible from my asus mobo right now...

I'm also waiting for Areca 1210 to arrive this week to find out if it works with m3a79t, the winner after a month's tests will eventually stay in the case...

xndrei

A probable fix for the warm reboot issue... my firmware is LSI 7.0.1-0061 .

I have changed my motherboard Asus P5KR with a Foxconn P43A and I have set to SATA mode to AHCI and disabled the JMicron controller, floppy, HDA, IR and... disable everything you don't need.

I noticed that on warm reboot the BIOS of my motherboard doesn't recognize the PERC5i as a harddrive but on cold reboot it does.

so I have made a cold reboot, entered the bios and after the correct detection of the PERC5i as harddrive I have EXIT AND SAVE the settings.

From now on I can do warm reboot and windows restarts too.

What do you think?

binormalkilla

So.....anyone tested this card to see how it handles an OCed PCI-E bus? I know my 4870X2 could probably use a little PCI-E bus speed for stability on higher clocks (has always helped in the past.)

If not I'll give it a shot.....we'll see.

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OCZ Solid Series 30GB

SilverMecer

Thank you for the great tips on the PERC 5/i RAID Card. Here are my results after I made the changes.

System:
Dell PowerEdge 840
1 x 2.4 GHz Dual-Core XEON
2 GB ECC DDR2 Memory
PERC 5/i RAID Controller - Flashed the controller with the LSI Image File: 7.0.1-0064

4 x Seagate 500 GB - ST3500320AS. Configured in RAID 5 with Write Back & Adaptive Read Ahead

OS HDD
1 x Western & Digital WD2500YS
Windows XP Services Pack 3

HD Tune Pro: DELL PERC 5/i Adapter Benchmark RAID 0 --> Dell Firmware

Write transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 150.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 231.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 186.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 10.3 ms
Burst Rate : 139.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.4%

HD Tune Pro: DELL PERC 5/i Adapter Benchmark RAID 0 --> Dell Firmware

Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 158.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 247.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 201.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 10.2 ms
Burst Rate : 139.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.1%

HD Tune Pro: DELL PERC 5/i Adapter Benchmark -- RAID 5 --> LSI Firmware

Write transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 11.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 259.6 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 197.5 MB/sec
Access Time : 11.0 ms
Burst Rate : 309.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.6%


HD Tune Pro: DELL PERC 5/i Adapter Benchmark -- RAID 5 --> LSI Firmware

Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 139.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 258.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 224.6 MB/sec
Access Time : 11.0 ms
Burst Rate : 308.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.0%

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albator91

Hi everybody.

I readed this post, and thanks for all informations.

My mobo is a gigabyte ds4 p35 with windows vista 32 ultimate.

But I have some question.

I have a perc 5i card, and first my mobo not boot.

I have got a message if i don't put the RAM on the card.

The pin 5 and 6 is now covered.

The mobo boot, but i have not the message to enter in the card bios. (ctrl C....)

My card is reconized as LSI card sas 3000 but with "code 10".

Impossible to flash the card.

My card is faulty ?

I buy à another card (perc 5 ir).

Excuse my for my english, but i'am french.

Thanks you for your help.

albator91

i tested with sata hd and sas hd, but nothing.