WD Black 1TB x2

death_looms · 20 Jun 2009 at 00:27

First off, a big shout to OCUK, ordered these drives lunchtime yesterday, delivered 2pm today. In northern Ireland. Took 15 mins from ordering to then being ready to ship! Thanks guys!

I havn't decided how to use them yet, RAID 1, RAID 0, or non separate backup drives, roll on any suggestions for them! (ps I'm currently using 2x160 samsungs in RAID 1, and an old 80GB Hitachi as a storage drive, and its full!)

Anyhows, if anyone wants any (free) benchmarks done give me a shout and I'll do my best

Taking ages to format like!

lay-z-boy · 20 Jun 2009 at 02:09

Matrix RAID

First part of the drives in a 500gb raid 0 array

Second part in a 750gb raid 1 array

Enough space for a huge os partition and all your important stuff cloned over both drives.

death_looms · 20 Jun 2009 at 03:11

Had a quick flick through the raid manager, I can only select raid 1 or 0. This is on a P5q-E. Can this support matrix raid?

death_looms · 20 Jun 2009 at 12:13

Ahh think I've found it, create a RAID 0 (or 1) and install the o/s, then install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager and use it to create the second RAID from within windows. Hopefully by tonight this will all be over!

death_looms · 20 Jun 2009 at 12:20

Apparently I can do it from the post POST interface, just have to set them up one at a time. Will report back when it's done.

death_looms · 22 Jun 2009 at 14:49

Ok, here are some HD Tune benchies I ran quickly

First, the freshly formatted drives

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2.

The RAID 0 array:

The RAID 1 array:

All in all, I'm a happy chappy