Poor Raid0 benchmarks for intel x25 g2
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11-06-2009 07:39 AM
Shouldn't I be seeing a read average of about 400+ for hd tune here? This is set up in a dell xps8000 raid 0 with 128 blocks on Win7. Thanks for any Help.
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11-06-2009 11:01 AM
Hmm . During x25 installation I also disconnected one of my cdRoms and used that sata cable for one of the x25's. I also pluged that x25 into the connector on the motherboard that was originally used for the cdRom. That shouldn't make a difference… should it?
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11-06-2009 11:48 AM
The 2 SSD's should be connected with the Intel SATA ports 1+2, the optical drive with a non-Intel SATA port (if available) of your mainboard.
Since you obviously didn't install any Intel RAID drivers, your OS is running with the Win7 in-box Intel RAID driver v8.6.2.1012 dated 04/08/2009. You will get a better performance, if you do a driver update (either to v8.9.0.1023 or v9.5.0.1037).
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11-06-2009 12:19 PM
Would it be best to do an OS reinstall or you think I can just update the driver?
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11-06-2009 12:55 PM
No OS reinstall is needed, just run the installer of the RAID package (Intel Matrix Storage Manager or Intel Rapid Storage Technology depending on your decision).
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11-06-2009 01:50 PM
Well I installed the Matrix storage manager and rebooted. Still getting the same results, however I see that the driver is Ver:8.9.0.1023 in the properties section of Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller. The instructions mention this…
"If you are installing the operating system on a system configured for RAID or AHCI mode, you must pre-install the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager driver using the F6 installation method described in section 5.3."Should I just reinstall the OS?
Also should mention that if I use a larger block size in HDtune (like 512kb) then the read avg goes over 450(The default block size is 64kb in HDtune). But that's expected... right?