K
Kurt
I am having an issue running my SATA Raptor 10k drives in
a RAID 0 configuration. Benchmarks show that while
running a RAID 0 they are actually running slower than
with a single drive. I am at a lose as to whether this is
a hardware or driver issue. I have all of the latest
drivers installed supplied by ASUS and I'm still runnging
slower than I should be. Here is a thread that was posted
and better written than I could have put it into words the
problems that we are having.
"With the collective experience of the people who visit
these boards I am sure some reasonable conclusion can be
made about what is going on here. I have looked on the
boards and it appears at least 2 others have posted
identical problems as I, with different motherboards. I
have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe, Gdtruk has a Asus P4S8X, and
Gazmatrix has a KT4 Ultra SR Mobo (MSI) . What we all have
in common is unreasonably low Hard drive scores with two
western digital raptors RAID 2+0 Striped config. I know it
isnt the drives, I benchmarked a single raptor on my
system and came up with a 1300, when I put two in a raid 0
config the score dropped to 613! Based on the way raid
works it should be doubling my mb/s transfer rates not
halfing it. All of these motherboards contain either the
Promise FastTrak 376 (tm) Controller or its cousin Promise
FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller, which I believe use the same
drivers. As on asus's web site drivers for both come from
same zip. I have tried backtracking to an older version of
the drivers but it offers no improvement at all. Some have
suggested benching on Sandra, I havent, but Gazmatrix has
and it offered no improvement in the stats. I would say it
might be the BIOS not being optimized, but the fact that
its on 3 differenent motherboards tells me otherwise. One
thing that caught my eye was is in the hardware profiles
under harddrives the array is listed as "Promise 2+0
Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device" being run by Microsoft
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0 from 7/1/2001. That may not be
the prob but the date of the driver for the array (not the
controller mind you) predates SATA RAID by a long while.
Those who like a challenge please help us out, its driving
me nuts."
I would greatly appreciate any help or insight that could
be offered. Thank you,
Kurt Gruell (aka Gdtruk)
a RAID 0 configuration. Benchmarks show that while
running a RAID 0 they are actually running slower than
with a single drive. I am at a lose as to whether this is
a hardware or driver issue. I have all of the latest
drivers installed supplied by ASUS and I'm still runnging
slower than I should be. Here is a thread that was posted
and better written than I could have put it into words the
problems that we are having.
"With the collective experience of the people who visit
these boards I am sure some reasonable conclusion can be
made about what is going on here. I have looked on the
boards and it appears at least 2 others have posted
identical problems as I, with different motherboards. I
have an Asus P4C800 Deluxe, Gdtruk has a Asus P4S8X, and
Gazmatrix has a KT4 Ultra SR Mobo (MSI) . What we all have
in common is unreasonably low Hard drive scores with two
western digital raptors RAID 2+0 Striped config. I know it
isnt the drives, I benchmarked a single raptor on my
system and came up with a 1300, when I put two in a raid 0
config the score dropped to 613! Based on the way raid
works it should be doubling my mb/s transfer rates not
halfing it. All of these motherboards contain either the
Promise FastTrak 376 (tm) Controller or its cousin Promise
FastTrak 378 (tm) Controller, which I believe use the same
drivers. As on asus's web site drivers for both come from
same zip. I have tried backtracking to an older version of
the drivers but it offers no improvement at all. Some have
suggested benching on Sandra, I havent, but Gazmatrix has
and it offered no improvement in the stats. I would say it
might be the BIOS not being optimized, but the fact that
its on 3 differenent motherboards tells me otherwise. One
thing that caught my eye was is in the hardware profiles
under harddrives the array is listed as "Promise 2+0
Stripe/RAID0 SCSI Disk Device" being run by Microsoft
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0 from 7/1/2001. That may not be
the prob but the date of the driver for the array (not the
controller mind you) predates SATA RAID by a long while.
Those who like a challenge please help us out, its driving
me nuts."
I would greatly appreciate any help or insight that could
be offered. Thank you,
Kurt Gruell (aka Gdtruk)