RAID? some good info.....

[Shadow ÒÓ]

Here's my HD Tach score:

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Compared to a single drive:

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You can pick up HD Tach here (http://www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach.htm) , as well as compare with other benchmarks here (http://www.benchmark.pl/wyniki/hdtach.html)

Only problem, is if you are using the demo version, it doesn't work for anything on the NT kernel...you have to have the full version for that.

[Yodums]

Ahh its beautiful although I'm looking into raid just that I hear bad things about problems setting OS's on them and stuff I can't let that hold me back.

Although its kind of pricey as well a new motherboard with raid support so thats like 2x the money of it then I got to buy 2 identical drives.

I'll look into it when I get a job but I love the performance you post.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I've yet to have a problem setting up an OS on a RAID system, and a board with on board RAID doesn't cost twice the price. More like 30% more. I prefer buying a RAID controller card as I can move it from one board to the next, as well as run my DVD, CDRW and CD Rom off off the mobo.....and have room for another drive if necessary.

Buying identical drives is also not necessary. If you buy a 20 and a 40 gig, you'll have 2 20gig drives......you can partition off the extra lost 20 gigs as another drive, so you'd have a 40gig RAID (if you RAID 0 it) and a 20 gig non RAID partition.

[LJ5L]

Whats up with my read access?

[LJ5L]

Hmm

[touser]

Heres my Raid-0 scores on the system in my sig..
http://members.home.net/touser3/hdtach1.gif

[JetMech]

Originally posted by LJ5L
Whats up with my read access? If my memory serves me right what you are seeing is the movement of you drives read arm from the edge to the center of the drive platter. I don't know what drive that is, but It does not appear to be very efficient. Be sure to set your virtual memory in a permanent swap file at a size 2.5 times the amount of memory on your system. And set it to occupy the outer edge of the drive. A temp swap file will work in that inner area at times and you will lose performance. Your CPU utilization reading is excellent. That drive might be great for a folding box with ME installed.

[Jon]

Running a defrag before that test can help scores a bit as well. Helps keep the test file that is written and read in a more linear direction than skipping all over the disk.

[Shadow ÒÓ]

out of curiousity, I defragged the same drive and ran it with a 256 meg swap file.

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Then I ran it with out a swap file at all....