Slow raid performance :(

[touser]

hi all i just ran some benchmarks on my raid-0 (striped) and i was rather dissapointed with the results :( iam using 2 ata100 7200rpm 40gb maxtors, the onboard raid controller on my abit th7-raid mobo, winXP Pro, and the NTFS file system..is there any way to improve performace? thanks in advance!
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[hooziewhatsit]

do you have the latest bios and drivers for the raid controller?

right after I installed xp I forgot to install the highpoint drivers for my kt7r . I couldn't even copy files to a drive on the standard ide until I installed some newer drivers for it.

good luck

[touser]

thanks hooziewhatsit for the reply and yes i have the latest drivers for everything, i just reinstalled everything from a clean format 2 days ago :)

[Shadow ÒÓ]

mine ran around 29k while I was running windows 2k. It ran in the 35k area when I was running 98/me.

by the looks of it, you're doing about on par. DMA is enabled correct?

[touser]

well i would not know if udma is enabled on it because windows does not even recognize the array under device manager, it did this both under 2k and now under XP,. is there some way i can check this in the bios of the raid controller?thanks again for the help!

[deathstar13]

dunno if this is of any help? but when i built this sys i did it with unformatted disk drives. and for some reason i had to set it up as a non raid system and format each drive seperatly. when i formatted them together i found simeler results as you and i discovered only one hd was formatted and was running alone and this didnt show up in my raid configuer. test each drive seperatly and make sure each are set up independantly then conect it all back in raid array and then install the os

did i do this the hard way guys? im new to raid ?

36906 is my score on sandra
2x0 raid 20 gig 7200 maxtors

[OC-Master]

Those scores are terrible, my D740X scores 30000 points without raid. With RAID, I should be expecting just over 40000.

Check to make sure you have the latest Highpoint bios and drivers for your RAID controller. And also make sure the drive is well defraged and you got your virtual memory set to 1/3 of your ram.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

also, are you running each drive in it's own channel. You don't want them both on the same ribbon.

[touser]

yes, each drive is on it own channel :)