RAID 0 with 2 180GXP's WOW!!!!!! INSANE!!! OMG!!!

This is crazy, I just made a post bout complaing on the benches this setup got me , but those benches must have been confused....

anyhow I did some other ones.

My score in PCMARK2002 is around 1600 which aint bad I Guess, I Dont know how that compares to other setups.

But in WinBench99 on the disk inspection tests! holy WOW!
101MB/sec transfer start
85MB/sec transfer end
11.4ms access time
10% CPU utilization

Also, another quick test I Did was with..
Nero's drive speed check and it read out at 95MB/sec!

Anyhow...the drives are 180GXP 40Gig....Model for the 60Gig nerfed cuz they were RMA hard drive replacements =P

I love this! WindowsXP boots fully in about 15seconds. Meaning I am at my desktop with everything loaded in 15seconds....not including the time it takes to type in pword =P

Love these things!

Very nice, I guess because what you really have are 60GB drives with the last 20GB hidden, your end transfer rate was going to be very high. Even so, 100 down to 85MB/s is very nice.

wow

really nice speed there.

I have a few questions tho....argh
Im debating whether keeping this RAID or not.

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

I guess because what you really have are 60GB drives with the last 20GB hidden

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Oh yeh those drive do use 80 gig Platters. I wonder if anyone with the money wants to try and get the firmware from an 80 gig and flash it to unlock the 20 gigs.
I hear these drives are near Raptor speeds. I was planning to get a new drive just for my OS, this sounds interesting.

umm... they are good, but not near raptor speeds....

raptors' seek times are lower, the end transfer rate is also higher.

but the GXP180 is still a very nice drive. IBM's newest, the 7K250, gets nearer to the Raptor's speed.

Here's a head to head comparison chart of the 3 drives:

http://www.storagereview.com/php/be...&devID_0=250&devID_1=249&devID_2=220&devCnt=3

hm those are awesome speeds, might pick up a couple of those rather than the raptors!

Damn these drives do look sweet. Me thinking weather to get 2 Raptors or 2 of these drives now. Oh well at least I got 2 months to decide which to get

I'm running a 120GB 180GXP with 8MB cache, bridged to S-ATA as a single drive and the speed is exellent!