Spinpoint RAID advice

[Skynet5]

Hi,

I have a p6t deluxe v2 and just followed a guide to enable RAID (previously set to ACHI). I had to set a bit to 0 from 3 in the registry otherwise I would bluescreen.

I have 1 SSD for boot and starting to fill up my old SpinPoint HD103UJ 1TB. I figured I would go and buy another spinpoint and RAID 0 it. Hopeing for more space and faster performance.

OcUK sell the SpinPoint f3 HD103SJ. Can you forsee any problems creating a RAID from these two different disks. The cache maybe different, but I'm not sure.

 

[AbsenceJam]

They'll be fine together in RAID 0 but you'll be limited by the slower F1.
You said you're filling up the F1, you are aware that to setup RAID 0 you'll have to wipe it right? I hope you have the space to back them up too.

 

[Skynet5]

Your right. Yes had back up of data externally.

Bought the drive and just experiencing this bottleneck with the f1.

In atto I get 120MB/s on the F1 and 150MB/s on the F3 with the larger transfer sizes. RAIDed I get 240MB/s.

However, with the 0.5-32 size the RAID performance is only a little bit better than the F1 on its own. The F3 pulls in 30MB/s as oppose to 5MB/s on the F1 with the smaller transfers (0.5).

I've enabled write back caching in the Intel Storage Manager and performance has gone through the roof though (90-150MB/s on the smaller block sizes). But I understand the risks of this.

Still...I guess this isnt bad.