chispy

Test Set Up:
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Vista 32bit full install SP1
Asus Rampage extreme Bios 1104
i7 965 @ 4.14Mhz on SS ( Batch #3838B044 Pack date 12/17/08 )
Corsair Dominators GT 2GB x3 2000 @ 968 7-8-7-20 1T
XFX GTX 285 xxx @ 756/1620/1472Mhz on H2O
Adaptec Raid 5805 512MB DDR2 cache PCIx8 (firmware 5.2-0 , (1616 June 2008)Raid0 256k stripe
8x 30GB OCZ Core Series V2 SSds in raid0 256k Stripe
PC Power & Cooling 1200w



By chispy at 2009-02-18


By chispy at 2009-02-18


By chispy at 2009-02-18

chispy

Testing 8x 30GB Ocz Core series V2 on raid0 ( Im awaiting for the new Raid card meanwhile ill run 6 SSds)

6x 30Gb OCZ Core Series V2 SSds in Raid0 Intel ICH9R Controller.
Asus Rampage extreme
E8600 Stock clocks
GTX 285
2x 1GB OCZ Platinum 1600 D9s
PC Power & Cooling 1200w


Test 1 - 128k stripe




Atto and HD Tune







PCMark05 HD Test Suite







PCMark05 System test suite





HD XP Start up slow , maybe the ICH9R its getting hammer dont know whats up with that , i guess ill find out once my new raid card gets here.



DiskMark x64 100MB

eva2000

Yeah limit of ICH9R ? Try clocking cpu higher for a bit more ICH9R performance.

Interesting to see how 8 of these do on a nice controller

chispy

Yes George i can see the ICH9R choking , i did try with oc cpu at 4.2 and only saw a very small increment in performance on the array , so meaning the ICH9R controller cannot keep up with the output of 6 SSds speed. good Raid card needed to unleash the full potencial and performance on this type of array.

chispy

*updated benhmarks in first page , more to come as i want to flash the firmware to the latest one that was release today

New Firmware 5.2-0 (16501 february 18, 2009.) Flashed went flawlessly and the performance has increased on the Raid Controller.


By chispy at 2009-02-18

i7 stock clocks testing the same Raid0 array 256k stripe size - PCMark05 , good start up time , a fresh nlite install and OS tweaks should bring me close to the 200xp start up mark where i want to be , ill test different stripe size and different OS tweaks and report beck.



By chispy at 2009-02-18

eva2000

nice hdd virus scan performance there

so looks like Adaptec starting to optimise firmware for SSDs!

chispy

Yes finally they are going in the right direction , me thinks in the next Firmware update SSds support will be very good on this controller , I saw a good jump in performance and stability with this new firmware. George wich Stripe size you have tested that will give you a boost in HD start up test ?
Im still testing different Raid drivers and will test Stripe sizes too in the next couple of days. Im tired and sleepy today as i spent all night until early in the morning 5:30am playing with the controller trying different things (wife not happy about it lol )

eva2000

Usually it will be between 64k vs 128k vs 256k so need to test for yourself I suspect the more drives used in an array the higher the stripe size might benefit performance. Let me know if i'm right or wrong