SSD RAID0 comparison (ARC-1220, Perc5/i, ICH10R)

[MpG]

Strange. If I wanted those kind of numbers from 4 drives in RAID, SSD's wouldn't be necessary. Neither would top-line HDD's, for that matter. I believe the Patriot drives use the much-maligned Jmicron controller, but I'm not sure if this can be blamed on that.

[lowfat]

I am thinking about agreeing with XS and that HD Tune and HD Tach don't test the full files large enough to span the 128k stripe, which is why ATTO is showing the results that they believe it should.

Here are the ICH10R, 4 drive RAID0, 4k strip results. Not much better.




Areca results soon.

[lowfat]

Areca, 4 Drive RAID0, 128k




ICH10R = FAIL! I didn't think the results would vary this much.

[Prof. Dr. Silver]

Funny looking numbers.... did you go to the OCZ forums? They have some useful info on SSD's in general. They might be able to help you out with your issues. Good luck!

[miggs78]

Originally Posted by lowfat

Areca, 4 Drive RAID0, 128k




ICH10R = FAIL! I didn't think the results would vary this much.

640+ Mb/s.. WTF!! Sorry nothing to you m8.. I'm just surprised at HD Tach

[ebdoradz]

thats some impressive number you got there with the acera bud...

400mb/s tranfer rate is hard to acheive on 7200rpm drive ...

definatly the ICH10R controler dont seems to like the SSD drive.

[lowfat]

I tried 64k, 16k, and 4k. All of which were slightly worse in order than the 128k stripe. I have install Vista on it and will play for awhile. I'll try the Perc 5/i once I can get the damn thing to work on this board.

[Chilly]

Originally Posted by lowfat

I tried 64k, 16k, and 4k. All of which were slightly worse in order than the 128k stripe. I have install Vista on it and will play for awhile. I'll try the Perc 5/i once I can get the damn thing to work on this board.

Easy. Do this(use electrical tape or some paper, easy to put on, easy to remove).



Some more info here about why it happens, and why covering the pins works.

[lowfat]

Originally Posted by Chilly

Easy. Do this(use electrical tape or some paper, easy to put on, easy to remove).

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Some more info here about why it happens, and why covering the pins works.

Ya I've tried that. Doesn't recognize the card at bootup or doesn't boot up at all. Maybe it doesn't like the slot.

[Phobia]

Well, i tried 4k as well, and it seems to be way faster for me as well my average is 193.4mb/s as opposed to about 138mb/s. Now, how will 4k striping affect my OS and games, or is it fine? All my music and movies and larger files will be on magnetic harddrives.. These are only for regular applications (firefox, xfire, msn, etc) and games (mainly cod4)