4 Drive SSD Raid0 - 4x Adata S596 64GB drives on Asus P6X58D-Premium ICH10R Benchmark

[SkopjeMKD]

Hi all, did little toying around, bought some cheap (well, in Europe prices are usually 1.5x US prices, but I've managed to find some A-data SSD even cheap for US standards, $100/each)

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setup
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• I920 D0 @ 4Ghz (21x191)
• 12GB (6x2gb) Corsair Dominator 1866mhz@1914 mhz 9.9.9.27 1.65V
• Asus P6X58D-Premium
• Coolermaster 1000w modular
• Coolermaster V6 air cooling + 2 x 120mm case fans + 1x80mm ICH fan + Corsair ram fan, all on silent mode, PC is virtually silent even under load
• Asus Ati Radeon EAH 5870 1gb ddr5

Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit
Logitech G15 + G5 mouse
Apple Cinema Display 30"

• Hard disk setup:

4 x A-data 64GB SSD 500 series S596 JMF612 controller
in Raid0, on Intel ICH10R, total reported in Windows7Ultimate 238GB

1 x Kingston V-series 64GB (on Marvel controller 6Gbs, ACHI mode)

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Some screenies:

• CrystalDiskMark:

• HD Tune Pro (trial)

• HDTach (in compatibility mode for XP SP3)

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Let me know what you think.

I know that these drives ain't the best on the market, even the controller is kinda 2 generations behind but for $100 a piece and virtually 0 options available where I live (Macedonia) - these were the best I could find.

Anyways, if anyone wants repeated test or other modes (50mb in Crystaldisk etc. lmk)

 

[SkopjeMKD]

Here's another run after a fresh run of AS Cleaner 0.5 (manual trim for SSDs in Raid0):

 

[spinejam]

nice numbers! 🙂

 

[pjkenned]

Have any write tests where you are doing well over 256MB of transfer? Those JMF 612 controllers tend to trail off once the write cache is filled (and in this case you have 64MB x4).

Also, you might be capping yourself on the ICH10R. Some boards have 600-660MB/s limits in the ICH10R implementation. For example, on my Gigabyte X58-Extreme, I can fill the thing with drives that get over 1GB/s easily on a LSI SAS 2008 chipset but run 650-660MB/s on the ICH10R.