WD640AALS Matrix RAid 0 HDTune Results

[luv2increase]

I'm quite satisfied with these results, but shouldn't my access times and burst rate be better?

I tried the Ftool to disable AAM, but it doesn't detect my hard disks. Is there any way to disable my AAM or atleast set it to 254? HD tune pro has a setting where you can set it all the way up to 254 but it won't allow me to "set" it. The button isn't usable :(

[TimoneX]

Those are good numbers for a 2 disk RAID0 setup. You could cut the Access by creating a smaller matrix slice. Probably be around 2ms lower with a small slice (under 200GBs). I get right around 10.5 ms access with 2x320GB 7200.10 drives with a 190GB Matrix slice. Your drives are significantly faster.

Presumably it won't work in an array, but did you try setting AAM with a single drive? I'm considering WD Blacks for my next drives and I want control of acoustics. :)

[luv2increase]

Shouldn't my burst speed and access times be better?

I changed my sata to ide in the bios, booted into the ftool, and the aam is already disabled by default, or so it says.

[TimoneX]

11.5ms & 995MB/s burst? Sounds pretty good to me. As I said you could use the Intel Matrix console to create a smaller RAID0 slice of each drive and reduce access times on that slice by around 2ms. Aside from that I think your access times & burst rates are great.

[Mr.Guvernment]

burst rate means nothing, period, it is irrelevant
make sure you took off the jumpers on the drivers to make it 3G SATA, but again it really is irrelevant in real world.

[Satsumomo]

What's AAM for?

Here are my results, WD500AALS as well. And my external WD250KS :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/supermaitro/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_Vol.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/supermaitro/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_-1.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/supermaitro/HDTune_Benchmark_WDC_WD2500KS-00MJB.png

As you can see we're pretty much in the same range, I guess the only way we could get better benches would be with hardware controllers!