Hello
Some of you may recall me lurking around here lately asking a lot of questions about setting up a RAID 0 install, initially going down the route of cloning a non-RAID install to a RAID volume....
Well now after all the questions I got the confidence up to to start from scratch with a fresh install and it's really paid off! It started with preparing the case, cables and ports for the new disks at the weekend then the physical installation of 2 new Velociraptor 150's last night.
Used the latest (dated 23/10/08) Matrix manager drivers and software from the intel site. Swapped existing HDD's around on my IP35 Pro mobo and used SATA ports 1 & 2 for the RAID volume.
Shown below is the benchmark of my old 500Gb system disk, not sure of manufacturer / model, it's just the one that came with the system. Edit ** It is not a single Velociraptor, this is just to show what I was used to and how much things have changed
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All benchmarks below using the long benchmark setting on HD Tach rather than short as I assumed that to be the better option.
Shown below is the new Velociraptor RAID 0 benchmark taken after HDD activity / updates had settled down but WITHOUT enabling write back cache in Matrix Manager.
And shown below is with write back cache enabled. Significant difference in burst speed!
The system is so much faster, installation of programs is lightning fast especially when installed from one of my other drives mounted as a virtual drive image.
So anyway hope the benchmarks look about right and convinces others to go down this route, and above all thanks for all the help
Some of you may recall me lurking around here lately asking a lot of questions about setting up a RAID 0 install, initially going down the route of cloning a non-RAID install to a RAID volume....
Well now after all the questions I got the confidence up to to start from scratch with a fresh install and it's really paid off! It started with preparing the case, cables and ports for the new disks at the weekend then the physical installation of 2 new Velociraptor 150's last night.
Used the latest (dated 23/10/08) Matrix manager drivers and software from the intel site. Swapped existing HDD's around on my IP35 Pro mobo and used SATA ports 1 & 2 for the RAID volume.
Shown below is the benchmark of my old 500Gb system disk, not sure of manufacturer / model, it's just the one that came with the system. Edit ** It is not a single Velociraptor, this is just to show what I was used to and how much things have changed
**All benchmarks below using the long benchmark setting on HD Tach rather than short as I assumed that to be the better option.
Shown below is the new Velociraptor RAID 0 benchmark taken after HDD activity / updates had settled down but WITHOUT enabling write back cache in Matrix Manager.
And shown below is with write back cache enabled. Significant difference in burst speed!
The system is so much faster, installation of programs is lightning fast especially when installed from one of my other drives mounted as a virtual drive image.
So anyway hope the benchmarks look about right and convinces others to go down this route, and above all thanks for all the help
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