WD VelociRaptor 3000glfs RAID 0 prep

[Baby3ater666]

Gentlemen! Behold! I have successfully put my newest VR in with my other VR to form RAID 0! Installed with no problems! I used a 64k stripe and I did a HD tach test and only got 427 =( how do I get a better score?

 

[tuskenraider]

427 what? If that's burst speed, so what, that measurement is worthless. Average access time and sustained transfer rate are the only meaningful data really.

 

[Baby3ater666]

I just ran HD Tune 2.55 and my following results are Minimum: 141.6 MB/sec, Maximum 230.5 MB/sec, Average: 182.9 MB/sec, Access Time: 7.0 ms, Burst Rate 169.0 MB/sec, CPU Usage 29.5%! That seems a little high for CPU usage don't you think? Are these results decent? This is with Write Back Cache disabled.

 

[Baby3ater666]

Wow talk about update! Just enabled Write Back Cache and following results are: Minimum 132.2 MB/sec, Maximum 235.9 MB/sec, Average 192.9 MB/sec, Burst Rate 1602.5 MB/sec! Is that about on par now for VelociRaptor RAID 0 bench?

 

[MongGrel]

Intel Matrix but thats been said, I like a 16K stripe myself on the 3X150 AFDF's, but I might be weird I guess.

Works for me but I have a couple arrays going and just personal preference.



The JMicron stuff just sucks to be blunt about it hehe

I did forget about maybe a velo and intel conflict I guess mine the regular ones, but I still haven't seen JMicron do much right on much that I've ever read

 

[Baby3ater666]

Well hopefully that Velo and Intel conflict has been done with because I got it working and am hoping that nothing goes wrong!

 

[Vengance_01]

Enjoy those drives. Solid setup for people looking for speed and some more storage space. Did you short stroke your drives, or just 1 big raid array?

 

[Baby3ater666]

It's just one big array what is this short stroking that I've been hearing about anyways?