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amdking
10-19-03, 08:06 PM
Im debating whether keeping this RAID or not.
This is the RAID of 180GXP's that benches at 101MB/sec Sustained rate..I just made a post about.

When I load a few games...it comes to a CRAWL compared to loading it off a single drive
Example:
Max Payne - it gets to bout 75% loaded then takes 5 minutes to load the rest!?!?! on a single drive this game loads maps in seconds.
Everquest - its slower loading the game when u tell it to cache textures then it was on my single drive...

I have the RAID partitioned just like my 120JB was..
c: (OS and utilities) is 29GB
z: (SWAP) 800MB FAT32
f: (Games) 50GB

Now, I noticed that the cached read score in PCMARK2002 was horrible, its around 25-35MB/sec...
If thats the case and this RAID is reading cached stuff, is there any way to disable the cacheing? or something....

Thanks

FireMogle
10-21-03, 02:17 AM
What OS are you running.
Also try to update your drivers, I had that problem till I did once.