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- Apr 27, 2004
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- Newcastle
hello just joined this forum as i am having a problem with a pair of 80 Gig Maxtors in RAID 0 On the Sil 3112, when I RAID 0 them i get slower performance than just a single drive and i mean noticably slower not just benchmarks both drives are fine on their own.
what i have tried so far
Rebuilding RAID array several times
used all different block sizes
fresh reinstall of OS
Newer drivers for everything
also tried testing when not in windows, norton ghost writes slower to the RAID 0 than it does to an individual drive during a restore a single drive takes 4 mins and when in RAID 0 it takes 6 mins to restore the same image.
this has been bugging the hell out of me because when i first installed them in RAID 0 they worked like a dream.
all i have on them is Windows XP pro and a few essesntial programs everything else is held on seperate drives.
can someone help please
my specs
XP Pro on
Athlon xp 2500@3200
Leadtek K7NCR18D pro 2
1 Gig DDR3200
Radeon 9800 pro 128meg
Pioneer DVR107D DVD-RW
Pioneer 121 DVD-Rom
2x 80 Gig Maxtor Diamond Max + 9's SATA Identical drives
1x 40 Gig Maxtor Diamond Maz + 8
what i have tried so far
Rebuilding RAID array several times
used all different block sizes
fresh reinstall of OS
Newer drivers for everything
also tried testing when not in windows, norton ghost writes slower to the RAID 0 than it does to an individual drive during a restore a single drive takes 4 mins and when in RAID 0 it takes 6 mins to restore the same image.
this has been bugging the hell out of me because when i first installed them in RAID 0 they worked like a dream.
all i have on them is Windows XP pro and a few essesntial programs everything else is held on seperate drives.
can someone help please
my specs
XP Pro on
Athlon xp 2500@3200
Leadtek K7NCR18D pro 2
1 Gig DDR3200
Radeon 9800 pro 128meg
Pioneer DVR107D DVD-RW
Pioneer 121 DVD-Rom
2x 80 Gig Maxtor Diamond Max + 9's SATA Identical drives
1x 40 Gig Maxtor Diamond Maz + 8