Asus A7V133 IDE RAID problem

[shaggyfl]

I have a problem with using the promise raid ATA100 on my ASUS a7v133. When I first installed the 30 gig Maxtor 7200 rpm HD I got a score of like 24000 with Sandra. Now when I run the benchmark I get a score of 17000. I not real sure what has changed. I added a new thermalright sk-6 with a very loud delta and an YS Tech 120mm. I had changed a few things in the bios but I changed them back and I’m still only able to get the score of 17000. Would defragging help the score any?

Thanks,
Heath

 

[FRANK]

I've got an A7V133 with the onboard Promise RAID controller in a RAID 0 configuration, I'm using WD 30g ATA 100 7200 drives. Although this combination doesn't seem to do as well as the separate controller card with the IBM drives, it still returns a performance improvement over a single ATA 100 drive, my score is 31049. I found it a bit tricky to set up and from what I've read, the size of the partitions will make a difference in performance. Also I think it would be a good idea to de-frag your drive on a regular basis, it surely can't hurt.

I know this dosen't help much, maybe the resident RAID expert, "SHADOW", will respond with something more useful than I can.

Good Luck!