Any RAID experts out there...

[Ralph Dellinger]

I have a A7N8x motherboard, not the deluxe so I bought a MegaRaid SATA
controller with 2 Seagate 80 Meg SATA hard drives and everything seems to be
setup OK. I expected a big perfomance change in gaming with it set to RAID 0
and 16Kb striping but it doesn't seemed to be any change. It shows up in my
computer as a 160 gig hard drive like it's suppose to. Is there something
else I need to know for configuring and is there a way to test it. There
didn't seem to be any change using 3Dmark03. Thanks for any assistance.

 

[David Wells]

I have a A7N8x motherboard, not the deluxe so I bought a MegaRaid SATA
controller with 2 Seagate 80 Meg SATA hard drives and everything seems to be
setup OK. I expected a big perfomance change in gaming with it set to RAID 0
and 16Kb striping but it doesn't seemed to be any change. It shows up in my
computer as a 160 gig hard drive like it's suppose to. Is there something
else I need to know for configuring and is there a way to test it. There
didn't seem to be any change using 3Dmark03. Thanks for any assistance.

Can you tell ne if you can use XP scan disk on a system like this I
have 2 WD 120GB hard drives that show up as 1 240GB C drive but ever
time I try use scan disk it starts then says Windows scan disk can not
complete the task no reson other than that given.

 

[Outback Jon]

I have a A7N8x motherboard, not the deluxe so I bought a MegaRaid SATA
controller with 2 Seagate 80 Meg SATA hard drives and everything
seems to be setup OK. I expected a big perfomance change in gaming
with it set to RAID 0 and 16Kb striping but it doesn't seemed to be
any change. It shows up in my computer as a 160 gig hard drive like
it's suppose to. Is there something else I need to know for
configuring and is there a way to test it. There didn't seem to be
any change using 3Dmark03. Thanks for any assistance.

Just what improvement would you expect in a GRAPHICS benchmark when you use
faster hard drives?

The only difference you would notice in games is that they will load faster.

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[Ralph Dellinger]

So, what can be used to test it?

Just what improvement would you expect in a GRAPHICS benchmark when you use
faster hard drives?

The only difference you would notice in games is that they will load faster.

--
"Outback" Jon Gould | Let those who RIDE,
2003 Kawasaki Concours (wreck)|
1976 Honda CB750F (needs work)| DECIDE.
1972 Yamaha DS7 (project) |
(e-mail address removed) | HELMET LAWS SUCK
CQ CQ CQ de KC2BNE |
______________________________|____________________________
AMD XP 2400+ @ 2180 MHz 768M PC2100 DDR @ 290 MHz
Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe 120GB and 40GB Maxtor HD
Asus GeForceFX 5600 (320/640) Cornerstone 21" Monitor
Sony 52x40x52 CDRW HP D3857A 15" Monitor
Sony 16x40 DVD-ROM Nostromo n50 Speedpad
http://folding.stanford.edu - got folding?

 

[Moods]

So, what can be used to test it?

http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php

 

[Tim Draper]

www.sisoftware.net iirc. sandra 2004.
then use the storage benchmark test.

this will give you kb/s score.

i`m running 2x 36gb 10,000rpm 8mb cache WD raptor drives, and scoring around
the low 60,000kb/s region on the silicon image 3112a onbaord a7n8x board.

used as a main system drive - so winXP, games, all programs are run from it.

tim

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for hard drives and RAID arrays.
I've used it on my RAID 0 array.

A trial version can be dowloaded from here:

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

 

[RonK]

You can use AttoBench to do the test.
Download Windows SCSI Utilities :

http://www.attotech.com/software/app1.html

 

[Ralph Dellinger]

Thanks for all your replies..

You can use AttoBench to do the test.
Download Windows SCSI Utilities :

http://www.attotech.com/software/app1.html