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- Dec 23, 2007
Not that i am having a problem but i recently set up 2 WD Caviar Black hard drives on a Raid 0 array and i havent noticed much of a performance gain.
My setup consists of the following:
(2) 1TB WD Caviar Black 7200 rpm hard drives
Raid 0 / 128K Stripe
currently with 1% fragmentation
Based on my sig.... would it be better to use Intel raid and try to use the matrix storage thing or just use the gigabyte controller i am currently using?
I have formatted at least 6-7 times over the last 2 weeks looking for a comfortable install because gigabyte's raid drivers ( the drivers on their site) are a little tricky. Once i set up the array in the bios i then go to load windows 7 enterprise which doesnt have a gigabyte driver. I supply the driver gigabyte gives me (via usb stick) and windows tells me that i need to use a 32 bit driver or a signed 64 bit driver. I can't recall the exact work around but i basically keep picking drivers until the drive shows up on the windows drive selection screen. From that point i complete the install.
Attached is a screen shot of my current install and speed.
one thing i do remember is that after a previous install i ran HDTach and got some ridicolus benchmark numbers.... i assumed they were false because i had to run HDTach in xp3 compatability mode...
any thoughts?
My setup consists of the following:
(2) 1TB WD Caviar Black 7200 rpm hard drives
Raid 0 / 128K Stripe
currently with 1% fragmentation
Based on my sig.... would it be better to use Intel raid and try to use the matrix storage thing or just use the gigabyte controller i am currently using?
I have formatted at least 6-7 times over the last 2 weeks looking for a comfortable install because gigabyte's raid drivers ( the drivers on their site) are a little tricky. Once i set up the array in the bios i then go to load windows 7 enterprise which doesnt have a gigabyte driver. I supply the driver gigabyte gives me (via usb stick) and windows tells me that i need to use a 32 bit driver or a signed 64 bit driver. I can't recall the exact work around but i basically keep picking drivers until the drive shows up on the windows drive selection screen. From that point i complete the install.
Attached is a screen shot of my current install and speed.
one thing i do remember is that after a previous install i ran HDTach and got some ridicolus benchmark numbers.... i assumed they were false because i had to run HDTach in xp3 compatability mode...
any thoughts?