8KHA+ w/ a raid card & HD Tach

[John]

If you are running an 8KHA+ w/ a raid card, would you mind running HD Tach HD Tach 2.61 and posting benchmarks for your raid0 array.

My read burst score of 73 mbps seems to be a little slower than other boards I have used. Usually the score is off the chart (80+)

8KHA+
twin IBM 60GXP 40's in raid0 w/ a 16k stripe size

 

[Pabster]

No surprise.

You've got a VIA chipset based mainboard. IDE performance is always lowest in the class. I realize you're using an add-in RAID controller, but I've experienced similiar low performance issues with SCSI and RAID controllers (add-in) on all VIA-chipset based boards. Including my 8K7A's ... but that's to be expected from the 686B.

 

[John]

You really despise Via don't you?

Fortunately my KK266, 266-R, 8K7A, 8K7A+, and nForce420 boards did not exhibit a slow read burst speed on HD Tach like the 8KHA+. Odd thing is both of my 8KHA+ motherboards throw up the same score. With that in mind, all of the boards I listed above use the 686B southbridge minus the nForce420.

 

[Pabster]

Well, I wouldn't have expected the nForce-based board to. So that's good news

It is entirely possible you're running in to an IRQ issue. Is the RAID controller sharing an IRQ with anything else? VIA boards also have issues in the IRQ department.

And no, I don't "despise" VIA. I'm just disgusted with their bug-ridden chipsets.