slow raid 0

quantumisation · 14 Mar 2007 at 23:58

hi i have 2 7200.10 baracuda drives (320gb) in raid 0 using the onboard p5b controller. I ran HDTune (ill post a picture later) but the results were very low considering typical speeds of a single drive:

Minimum: 39.1 MB/sec
Maximum: 61.5 MB/sec
Average: 58.3 MB/sec

Access Time: 12.8ms
Burst Rate: 121.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage: 5.8%

Question is what could be causing this? i was gonna post this in the benchmark thread but im sure theres something wrong here. I dont mind too much cause i dont really notice it but the fact is theres not much point in me running raid 0 if it gives absolutly no increase in performance right?

quantumisation · 15 Mar 2007 at 20:55

im not sure if its 100% accurate cause i cant get HDtune to work now, its vista 64bit so probably isnt compatible..just says no drives found now. Anyway it does seem fast but who can say. Im using ports 0 and 1 on the motherboard, its a p5b deluxe and its using the intel controller not that other thing

quantumisation · 15 Mar 2007 at 21:44

well in the main bios everythings at its defaults atm except changed ide to raid, and in the raid bios just created 2 raid 0 drives with 128k, 2 other drives in the system are non raid

quantumisation · 15 Mar 2007 at 23:20

lol yes i have 1 big drive and not 2 small 1s..both seagates are part of the same raid array and show as members when the computer boots

quantumisation · 16 Mar 2007 at 07:41

again no, i set it up in ctrl + i - the intel bios. There are 2 options raid 0 and raid 1. These are stripe raid 0. I am 'not' using windows to set up raid.