Angry_Games Posted September 6, 2006 Posted September 6, 2006 oook getting into the NF590 SLI-M2R/G board I've got a couple of Seagate 7200.10 250GB SATA II, 16MB cache drives in RAID-0 on this mutha DFI LanParty NF590 SLI-M2R/G (AM2) AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+ (2400Mhz / 1MB L2 per core) OCZ Gold GX PC2-8000 (DDR2-1000Mhz) - OCZ2G10002GK 2x Chaintech 6600GT PCI-E 16x 128MB SLI, 91.42 drivers Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB, 16MB cache SATA II hdd NEC 3550A DVD-RW drive Antec TruePower TP3-550 (550w, 24-pin, EPS 12v) 64k Stripe, 16k Clusters 2x RAID-0 drives (listed above) now I'm off to test them with exactly the same setup, but using teh Silicon Image SI3131 controller Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tier_II Posted September 7, 2006 Posted September 7, 2006 Just to add my $0.02 I have a non-performance setup: I'm running Raid 5 instead of Raid 0 for uptime and reliability. I also have ECC memory and am running Barracuda 7200.10's instead of .9's (which are faster). However I do have the latest Adaptec RAID card running on my spare PCIe 16x slot. After I set everything up I was hitting a glass ceiling (120mb/s accross the array) with my SLI jumpers disabled. Below is what I get with 8x PCIe on a measly RAID 5 setup. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 @Tier_II The DFI nF4 Lanparty boards do not support ECC RAM. It might work in normal mode but you are not getting ECC support. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
suspekt Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 Tier_II: Not bad, not bad at all I see that $995.00 can give you quite a good performance in RAID-5. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LithoTech Posted September 8, 2006 Posted September 8, 2006 Man, that is one sweet usage of the spare pci-e slot. Dripping with envy here lol! Very impressive results no matter how you cut it! Did you try it in RAID 0 just to bench and see what it could do? I originally wanted 4x of these WD SE16's I have two of, but back then I wasn't expecting to see the perpendicular drives out so soon, or so reasonably priced. Now my plan is to split these 250's up in to a couple other systems, and replace them with 7200.10 320's. Going to have to wait though, because one of the two other systems doesn't exist yet heheh. Great to see those benches, and what a dedictaed raid card can do for you even in raid 5 or 1. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tier_II Posted September 9, 2006 Posted September 9, 2006 Okay, I searched around and found an older benchmark before I added the 4th drive. This is the same setup but with 3 of the drives in RAID 0. I don't have any benchmarks on a 4-drive RAID 0. I like how the card handles parity processing beautifully when running RAID 5. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJDave Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 Very happy with my first try at Raid 0. All standard settings, Windows default strip size and all. I did try unchecking read cashing and the command Q. but my personal results were worse with the two options unchecked. Thanks to all who help on this websight, your help with this Motherboard has been great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 Very nice speeds DJDave! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPDMF Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 I think I finally got the ULI controller sorted out.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundx98 Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 You got em screaming buddy! Dang I bet that array feels fast. One hale of a setup. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGuy Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 3 drives in RAID 0...nice boost disabling read caching and command queuing. First run was 302 burst by 134 read... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sorrento Posted September 10, 2006 Posted September 10, 2006 3 drives in RAID 0...nice boost disabling read caching and command queuing. First run was 302 burst by 134 read... Ok, i have been following this thread for quite some time... like more than a year, and this "disabling read caching and command queuing" is new... why are you disabling it, and how? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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