RAID?

DGarfield · 4 Nov 2009 at 15:30

Hello, I currently have RAID setup.. i think..

I am unsure of how to test if the RAID has actually worked, is their any tips on how? because the windows 7 benchmarking tool thing stayed at 5.9 for hard drives, which is what it was before i added a second HDD.

Also their is stuff everytime i startup telling me about my RAID (saying both discs are active or something) is there a way to get rid of this?

Thanks

droyden · 4 Nov 2009 at 16:40

What kind of raid is it?

Toastor · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:16

Some RAID controllers have an option in their bios which prevents the startup screen from showing. When you see the raid details come up, enter the RAID configuration bios and have a look around. It might be worth checking your motherboard manual or visiting the motherboard manufacturers website for configuraion details.

Whilst in the RAID configuration screen, it will also tell you the type of raid you have selected.

mod1fied · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:27

I thought the highest mechanical drives could achieve under the Win7 Index was 5.9.

Could run something like HDTune for the read speeds - Im sure someone would be able to tell you if your getting RAID 0 speeds or not.

Guest2 · 4 Nov 2009 at 17:28

droyden said:
What kind of raid is it?

Need to know this. Theres loads of different raid types, some are faster than others, some are slower than without raid

DGarfield · 4 Nov 2009 at 23:40

Hey thanks for the replies!
Well the RAID is RAID 0

HDtune results:
minimum transfer rate 42.3mb/s
Maximum 179.6mb/s
average 139mb/s

Access time 14.0ms
Burst Rate 127.7

"When you see the raid details come up, enter the RAID configuration bios and have a look around"

Is this the ctrl - i?
As my motherboard is gigabyte, if i plug the 2 sata ports into A and B it comes up with a different type of RAID configurator :/, (ctrl + G) though i have done this one through ports 0 and 1, which i understand to be the intel RAID?

When my computer boots, it shows the screen with info about my 2 drives and such, and then says "to enter RAID bios press ctrl + i" then if i leave it, it will go to another screen (which i think is the Gigabyte version of RAID?) which says "no drives detected" then it carries on booting normally :/ weird.