Uhhhh... Fast arrays...

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 09:20

Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 (Stock)
Abit IP35 Pro
4Gb Gold Series OCZ Vista DDR2 800 (Stock)
Windows Server 2003 R2 64 bit edition
ICH9 RAID 5 array using 4x Samsung F1 1Tb 7200RPM 32Mb Cache drives

AbsenceJam · 19 Apr 2008 at 09:46

How are the write speeds?

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 09:46

Know any tools which measure them?

balls · 19 Apr 2008 at 10:26

Pro version of HD tune

james32 · 19 Apr 2008 at 11:45

be lucky if the writes are faster than 1 single drive
since the onboard controllers are poop especially for raid 5

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:28

Gonna have to wait for the results, I'm copying 1.5 Terrabytes of data to the array at the moment... (on a 100Mbps LAN.... ouch!)

balls · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:29

The Intel controllers are surprisingly good, the writes were never going to be as fast as a dedicated controller, but still much faster than previous generation onboard solutions

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:36

Bleh, I cancelled the transfer to benchmark it. The direct write test is destructive and I'm not removing my partitions again lol, but the file write test gave some nice results.

MagicBoy · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:43

Wow - fast...

Howcome only 2199MB from 4x1TB drives in RAID5? Shouldn't it be around 2.8TB?

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:45

Two logical drives

One 800Gb and one 1.86Tb

sprognak · 19 Apr 2008 at 12:47

Oh I see what you mean lol. iirc, there's a limit of 2Tb drive visibility on Win32 apps.

rpstewart · 19 Apr 2008 at 17:09

sprognak said:
Oh I see what you mean lol. iirc, there's a limit of 2Tb drive visibility on Win32 apps.

It seems that way, My 4Tb array is reported as 2199Gb by HDTune as well, the nice thing is it skews the access time tests since none all the accesses are in the bottom half of the array

tomos · 19 Apr 2008 at 22:38

nice 98% CPU usage in the 1st piccy! :eek:

Mattus · 20 Apr 2008 at 12:50

Nice array, but that HD Tune test is completely broken. 50,000MB/s? 0.0ms?