XFX Revo 64

Robert · 30 Dec 2008 at 11:35

Just installed this along with two Samsung 1TB F1 drives and I'm getting about 80mb/s raid 0 speed :confused:

Seems very low to me?

Motherboard is a Gigabyte DS3P965

Conan257 · 30 Dec 2008 at 15:23

Are you getting 80mb/s all the time or is it with small files/large files?

You'll get vastly different speeds depending on what the drive is actually doing.

MikeTimbers · 30 Dec 2008 at 16:50

Remember this thing is really a Raid 3 controller so you're not using it as what it is engineered for. I know it can do 0 but if you want Raid0 get a Raid0 controller. I use one for Raid 3 with 3x8oGB drives and it's so far caught two drive failures without losing a byte.

Pandobear · 30 Dec 2008 at 17:40

remember that this is a pci card, so you are going to be pretty limited anyways, you would be better off using a cheap PCIe card, if you do not have any sata mainboard connects left.

decto · 30 Dec 2008 at 18:38

Pandobear said:
remember that this is a pci card, so you are going to be pretty limited anyways, you would be better off using a cheap PCIe card, if you do not have any sata mainboard connects left.

I'd agree with above, I'm using in Raid 3 with WD RE2's and I get around 80MB's with HDTach though that's twice what I can stuff across the network and it was very cheap.... so suits me just fine.

You won't get great rates with a PCI card, some use the later derivations such as PCI-64 to improve speed.

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