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MoFunk

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Hello, I am stumped! I have an 80gig drive that is partitioned into 2 drives an OS drive and a backup drive. I also have 2x80 in a raid0 with a highpiont pci controller card. Well I was curious what the speeds were and I was very shocked! My raid is 16370kb/s and my other drive is getting 32000kb/s.

So here is the whole story. I had this raid created in an Epox 8K3A+ with onboard raid. That board died and I bought an 8RDA+ with this raid card. The nice thing is that I was able to plug my array in and off I went. So the question is, should I move all my data off, recreate the array, and move the data back? Would that help the speed?
 
Well, your RAID array should be in the 40's, so I would say there is a problem. Have you run defrag lately? What is your stripe size?
 
The speed shouldn't be affected by being on a different controller version. Did you ever test it on the previous motherboard? What software are you using to test? Such an array, even with 5400RPM drives, ought to be at least in the 50s, given that many drives can reach the upper 30s on their own.
 
I do not remember what stripe size I used. I will try to defrag.

I did test in on the other mobo and it was in the 50's. I saw this first in Nero and then used sandra. I am using 7200 drives.
 
Originally posted by: Lord Evermore
Do you have the latest RAID controller drivers installed, and the latest chipset BIOS (which will include the RAID BIOS)?
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No. I actually just took this out of the box and put it in the system. I will give that a try first. Why did I not think of that? Thank you!

 
OK I downloaded the latest drivers and bios and installed. I even went as far as to take all my data off and deleted the array and recreated, reformatted and moved all data back. It is faster, but is not as fast as it was when I had onboard ide raid with my 8k3a+ But it is MUCH faster than it was, thank you. The question I have though is the utility that was included to flash the bios was a little wierd. I went to the folder it extracted to and it had load.exe and bios372.234. So I clicked on load.exe and it asked me what the file name I wanted to flash, I put in bios372.234 and it just went away. Do I need to boot into dos to do this?
 
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