hard drives & raid - benchmark and compare!

[SageI]

Never really paid any attention to boot up time.

 

So I timed it.

 

23 seconds from power ON till Windows fully loaded.

 

A lot of time is eaten up for my controller to establish a link with the PCI-E bus and load its BIOS.

[SoyoJoe]

So you have set up the raid in the bios, and booted into windows?

 

Have u installed the latest nvidia nforce drivers 6.70? In order for windows to know its a raid array u have to have some way to tell it thats what it is, hence the drivers.

 

If you had of installed windows on the array u would have had to given windows the drivers before you would have been able to format and install windows.

 

That incon in the tray is there for a good reason. But if you want to hide it 5 sec literaly of googline gives this.

 

http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips598.html

 

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...#entry587276507

 

 

I'm guessing its actually supposed to be there, when the RAID works, and I'll just have to learn to deal with it. I understand its almost stupid to care in the first place, but I'm just that much of a perfectionist.. I can't help it! :sad:

 

I just formatted my array with a 16k stripe and installed windows to it directly, so it should be the default cluster of 4k?

 

Also, which drivers should/shouldn't I install from the Nvidia driver package?

[suspekt]

That incon in the tray is there for a good reason. But if you want to hide it 5 sec literaly of googline gives this.

 

http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips598.html

 

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...#entry587276507

Mind you, that doesn't remove it, it only hides it.

 

I don't want to hide anything in my tray bar, cause when I don't click a program for this and that days it too will be hiding for me. Plus that << sign next to the tray bar takes up the same amount of space as the "Safely remove hardware" logo.

 

Sure, safely remove hardware is good, but I don't want to do hot-swapping with my 4 drive RAID-0 array (no point in doing that anyways...).

[SoyoJoe]

Yah, i find that 'hide icon thing' to be a whole lot more annoying than the other.

 

The only way i can see to remove it would be a registry edit.

 

 

Mind you, that doesn't remove it, it only hides it.

 

I don't want to hide anything in my tray bar, cause when I don't click a program for this and that days it too will be hiding for me. Plus that << sign next to the tray bar takes up the same amount of space as the "Safely remove hardware" logo.

 

Sure, safely remove hardware is good, but I don't want to do hot-swapping with my 4 drive RAID-0 array (no point in doing that anyways...).

[Andy_A]

Tonezorz; fraid I can't help you with your query, but you'd get more help if you started a new thread; "Hard drives & raid - setup problems!"

 

As this thread is; "Hard drives & raid - benchmark and compare!", it would help other folks out by separating the two topics and contribute to the efficiency of the forum.

 

If we don't keep this thread on topic it's only a matter of time before Angry Games comes on and gets, er, angry(!). And we don't want that. No. :eek2:

[Tonezorz]

Ok, back on topic then. Here is my RAID-0 Array with 2x 80gb Hitachis and a 16k stripe. Windows installed onto the array so default cluster.

 

Setup is the top section of my Signature.

 

 

And both the 8mb and 32mb tests.

 

[Tonezorz]

Here's a little bit of a dissapointment.

 

After just installing the nF4 SMBus and Ethernet drivers, nothing else, my performance dropped.

 

 

I Installed the IDE drivers after that to see if it helpped, and it was dreadfully worse... I didn't even want to printscreen it.

[SoyoJoe]

Have you enabled sata 2 for those hitachi's? I think there is a little tool you download from hitachi to 'turn on' sata 2.

[Tonezorz]

Yes I did. the avg. transfer rate has gone down to below 100 now with more programs installed and data on the drive. (Mainly just video drivers, 3D Mark 03,05, and 06)

 

But, apparently just that stuff is eanough to effect the transfer rate a lot. I'll get another pic of the further disappointment up later.

[SoyoJoe]

They're not too bad considering its only 2 drives, the more you add the better it gets.

 

most of the nice numbers with those drives comes with a 4 drive raid 0 array. Not a bad deal considering how cheap those are.

 

My two 36gb raptors 16/4

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/Typi...loan/raptor.jpg

 

My two 160gb seagates 16/4

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y147/Typi...an/untitled.jpg

[Chaos_2k]

Hi

 

i have a question:

Has the IDE SW driver form Nvidia (the one you can install with the Mobo-driver) any influence on Performance? has anyone of you tested this?

 

I have installed it and i guess im one of a very few people who have no proplems with it *g*

 

Chaos_2k

[Redbeaver]

as far as i understand, if you have RAID setup, you NEED to install the IDE SW driver....