tg989

Funny stuff, I'm running the EXACT same setup (3520 and all) but with 64G core's instead

Thanks for the link to the MFT tweaks!

I'm picking up 4 Vertex series drives shortly so I'll see how they compare to the original core series... they should be noticeably better.

eva2000

Hi tg989 and welcome

Yeah sweet setups aren't they - vertexes here we come

kangaxx

which is the best strip for pcmark05 and vantage ??

and how much gain give the raidcontrolled compared with ICH10R ?

Thanks

eva2000

Optimal stripe size is dependent on the controller used and type and number of drives used. I'd say if you had to test 3 stripe sizes for up to 4 to 6 drive arrays, I'd test 64K, 128K and 128K and pick the best one for the task at hand

hardware raid controllers come in different levels of performance that scale with price so hard to say what gains. But for raid 5/6 hardware raid definitely will beat ICH10R or onboard solutions. Raid 0, you can get more performance with better cpu performance to extent of ICH10R raid 0 closely matching hardware raid. But for write related performance hardware raid will win.

I no longer use onboard raid for my main work pcs but use hardware raid for storage (non-OS) as it's easier to manage and can be moved from motherboard to motherboard without any impact on the data. Also rebuilding of failed arrays (raid 5 etc) is much faster with hardware raid.

kangaxx

i have an acard 9010 raid0...

i try 64k and 128k ??
4k,8k,16,32k are not good?

eva2000

You can try all options and see which is best But if you're short of free time 64K, 128K and 256K would be options I'd at least test.

kangaxx

i dont have 256k
bigget is 128 eheh, ntfs or fat32 is relevant on pcmark ?

eva2000

Use NTFS and 128K and see