OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Well, Santa brought along another hard drive for ne ^_^. I installed XP fine, but I noticed that when I built my sister's computer, which uses plain old IDE, the XP loading thing makes 2-5 passes then finishes. This RAID 0 setup I'm using takes MUCH longer than that. Isn't SATA RAID 0 supposed to be... fast? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nVidia_Freak Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but, isn't RAID 0 a data mirror? Whatever goes on one hdd, goes on the other? Could be the problem. Get the latest drivers is all I could sugest. Don't forget, it also depends on how much you have on your hdd. A 80 gig hdd with a few gigs used loads up in a jiffy. Where as an 80 gig with 40 gigs left, loads in about a minute to a minute and a half. By loading, I mean how long it takes the desktop to show with all the icons. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DECwakeboarder Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 A new install of Windows will boot faster, it all depends on what you have that starts up with Windows. Mine now is on IDE and takes about half a pass somehow, definitly not complaining tho! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanin Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Raid 1 is the fast, Raid 0 is the backup/mirror. Don't kill me if I mixed them up since I dont have RAID. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 0=Fast 1=Mirror And this is a new install... installed it maybe 2 hours ago, barely put in anything. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nVidia_Freak Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 Don't turn off your pc. And get one of those 1000watt backup psus if the power goes out. J/k. Did the mobo come with sata connectors, or are you using a pci sata adapter card? If it's a pci adapter, that could make it slower, because of pci transfer rates. Just a guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 lol It is the built in SATA connectors on the board. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 What stripe size did you select? That usually makes the biggest difference. I personally use a 32k stripe size. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 16k stripe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 What mobo are these drives running on? Try doing a defrag and then run HD Tach and post your number here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptikaliLLusion Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 DFI NFII Ultra Infinity Here are the results with the short test: I placed BELOW ATA UltraDMA 6 at 112.6MB/s on the burst test Sequential read speed went from just under 110MB/s to 60MB/s Average read: 95.1MB/s Long test: About the same as above, sequential read test dropped sharply then rised sharply in some parts. This seems rather slow <_<. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilkev715 Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 The silicon image raid controller on the Infinity isn't that great compared to others. A little note about burst test: burst tests is simply data being read from the on-board memory buffer. While generally it is nice to have as high as a burst read as possible, most of the time data is being read from the platters (sequential and average read). After all, can all of the data in your HD be stored in the on-board cache? Nope. A faster sequential and average read is more important as most of the time data is being read from the platters, not the on-board memory buffer. My DFI Infinity with two seagate sata HD's in raid 0 (32k stripe size) gets around 96mb/s burst and 80mb/s average read. If you want, benchmark a single drive(non-raid drive) and see what numbers it gets. Most likely a single drive will only have a average read of 40-50mb/s. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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