Block Size - RAID0

[raralis]

You cannot boot from software raid - but you may be able to boot from one of the two drives if you have a seperate partition for the OS.

You'd end up having a white elephant of a partition on the other HDD though which the RAID 0 wouldnt be able to use.

Easier to just get a seperate drive for the OS, ideally a SSD.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess buying an SSD would be ideal in this situation.

How much performance increase would I see when using software raid compared to using the onboard one (intel one on Asus P6T SE)?

 

[Stelly]

Thanks for the clarification. I guess buying an SSD would be ideal in this situation.

How much performance increase would I see when using software raid compared to using the onboard one (intel one on Asus P6T SE)?

http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=429

Stelly

 

[Terrier_Jimlad]

well well well ... i've just put the F3's on the Intel controller, changed AHCI to RAID in BIOS, slapped the 2 x F3 in a RAID0 array on stripe of 128 KB, saved and exitted, followed by a BSOD even with latest intel raid drivers, so did the registry tweak, re-did the array and booted in to Windows fine ... re-ran ATTO and the difference is staggering, its like 3x the speed

on Gigabyte RAID JMicron controller:

on Intel RAID controller:

Awesome!

 

[Temi_D]

Thats more like it

 

[raralis]

Hey guys,

I've done some testing with my raid setup and I got some odd results.

Would appreciate it if some one could help me out.


I'm using 2x W.D 640gb (32mb cache) on an Asus P6T SE mobo in raid 0 mode - 128k stripe (onboard Intel Controller)

I've split it into 2 partions on it. C which is 200gb and D which is 1tb.

When I benchmark partition C I get the following:

Seems to be almost decent performance.

Partition D gives me this :

Any ideas?