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GIGABYTE+ AMD very disappointing With support for RAID 0 with SSD

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6311

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[FONT=&quot]GIGABYTE+ AMD very disappointing
With support for RAID 0 with SSD
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://mushkin.com/Digital-Storage/SSDs/MKNSSDCL60GB.aspx[/FONT][FONT=&quot]


See how the new board with SB850 barely able to give 200 MB with RAID 0 2XSSD[/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3420#ov[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/331/1520101145.png[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/677/39558770.png[/FONT][FONT=&quot]




Look RAID 0 with 2 disks simple mechanical
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=299[/FONT][FONT=&quot]

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4146/hdtunebenchmarkamd20str.png[/FONT][FONT=&quot]



Look at tests on Intel boards with RAID 0 + SSD
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=258891[/FONT][FONT=&quot]
[/FONT][FONT=&quot]http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/printthread.php?t=258891&pp=25[/FONT][FONT=&quot]


Are the board has a problem?
Does the board amd RAID 0 speed limits?[/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]How can I improve speed?
How Intel's board gives good results

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6311: First make sure that your BIOS is set to access the disks via AHCI. Second, Win7 does not need the "F6 pre-install", that's for XP. Third, once Win7 is installed you need to install the Gigabyte chipset drivers, you'll notice that includes chipset and sata/raid.

That's how you get the drivers onto Win7 (if you don't have Win7 then you probably should have said so). Whether they help you get more speed is another matter entirely, especially seeing as how I've seen complaints of AMD's AHCI driver sucking.
 
6311 said:
What's the connection?
What is this a joke?
Click to expand...

No joke at all.
The connection is that catalyst are ATI / AMD drivers.
The latest version is cat 10.9

I know a lot of people prefer the MS driver, but I have an all gigabyte - AMD lineup at home (6 desktops) and the AMD drivers for win 7 work wonders.
 
Thanks for the attitude
First make sure that your BIOS is set to access the disks via AHCI
Click to expand...
AHCI
NOT Plays a role in - RAID 0
I tried not help AHCI

Gigabyte chipset drivers, you'll notice that includes chipset and sata/raid.
Click to expand...
I had a Gigabyte board FX 790
all the time have to Install DRIVER
FOR raid
with win 7 64

I know a lot of people prefer the MS driver
Click to expand...
what is "MS " ???
 
Do not understand You gave me a link to what?
Google or Microsoft?
What am I supposed to understand ?

English is not my native language
 
6311 said:
Do not understand You gave me a link to what?
Google or Microsoft?
What am I supposed to understand ?

English is not my native language
Click to expand...

"MS" driver means the default Windows 7 Microsoft storage driver. The chipset manufacturer (Intel, Nvidia, or AMD depending on the motherboard, AMD in your case) usually has their own storage driver that you can install to override the Microsoft storage driver.
 
Make sure you're using the AMD SB850 SATA ports and NOT the secondary "Gigabyte SATA2" controller ports, which is probably a JMicron controller connected either via PCI or PCI Express x1.
 
Make sure you do NOT install any AMD/Catlyst drivers!! Use the MS driver.
You should have done your research though ... there have been multiple threads on this board alone about the horrible performance of AMD chipsets in connection with SSDs.
If you want to use SSDs, you really should use intel chipsets.

(And since this is a known problem for 2+ years, I do not see AMD fixing their chipset problems anytime soon)
 
What is RAIDXpert
Attached pictures, what it means?


http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/9008/59729093.png

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/5303/35067089.png

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5930/50223727.png

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1862/87477744.png

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5783/25044390.png

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6730/20357256.png

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6112/70634254.png

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/707/24650937.png

http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/7910/59646839.png

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2804/81741477.png

http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/158/73822165.png


I've made some changes on RAIDXpert
Here I've made changes in pictures

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/961/32100068.png
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7610/31368507.png

Changes results:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6579/64v6raidxpert.png

Improvement:
80MB read
13MB write

4K QD32 = There was great improvement in reading from 50 MB came to 200 MB write added only 10 MB

Questions:
1. What is Media Patrol Loop Count?
2. What's this? NCQ Enabled
3. What's Write Cache Enabled
4. Test what they say 512K or 4K terms or SEQ QD32

What this test :
http://localhost:25902/amd/screen.jsp

Does something have an idea how to improve more?
 
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