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cant wait
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this is going to be a nice speed boost
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WD Caviar Black 3x RAID 0 (updated)
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I just got my 3rd drive in from the UPS man 5 minutes ago. I'll post the before/after HD Tune results with 2 vs 3 of these drives.
2x 640GB WD Black:
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3x 640GB WD Black:
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2x 640GB WD Black:
3x 640GB WD Black:
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| Epic Fail that I fixed: 3x 640GB WD Black: 
I was expecting 265MB/s average... what happened? Is it something to do with channels? The theoretical maximum throughput for SATA3.0 is 375MB/s, so I should be seeing way more than this. Ran it again. 
It broke the 5.9 "barrier" on the Windows Performance thing. 
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Well I tried the bootable media with Acronis, but it didn't work. So I installed Win7 without a product key(30-day trial) on the new RAID setup so I could install Acronis and restore the backup that way, but it kept giving errors and restarting the computer. So finally I cloned that Win7 install over to my Seagate 7200.7 and booted from that IDE drive. The backup is restoring to the new RAID setup and has about 6 minutes left. I hope this works
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And it worked!
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And it worked!
Yes that does seem low. The average speed is less than 30MB/s faster than my two 640 Blue drives.
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Maybe try a fresh installation?
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THANK YOU! After I saw that, I thought it was the generic driver windows was using for the array. So I installed the Intel Matrix Storage driver and right clicked on the volume, and selected "Enable Volume Write-Back Cache" to see what would happen. IT WORKED!
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Originally Posted by Jeffro422 My 3 caviar black 640 in Raid 0 2Mb blocks |
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