Hey all,
Here's my problem. I recently purchased an Epox 8k5a3+. I've been enjoying great performance from the onboard HPT374 controller when using my 2 IBM 75GXP's (30gb ATA100) in RAID0. I recently purchased 2 Maxtor 53073U6 (30gb ATA66) drives. I connected them to the 2 remaining raid channels for the HPT374 and setup a large (4x 30gb) RAID0 array. After installing WinXP on it, I benchmarked it, and the throughput was horrid.
I then decided I should setup the original 2 ibm's in raid0 again to test out the Maxtor's. I again installed WinXP on the IBM array and benchmarked the Maxtor's on the HPT controller (in single drive mode as well as raid mode) (using ATTO and HD Tach). In a single drive config, the Maxtor's write speed was about on par, if a bit low. However write speed was very degraded (about 3MB/sec max).
I then tried the Maxtor's in RAID0, and the results are, if anything, worse than in a single drive config.
I then tested the 2 drives individually on the onboard IDE channels, and they perform as expected (~30mb/sec read, ~25mb/sec write).
I have the latest HPT bios installed (1.22 (hacked into the Epox 8/15/2002 BIOS) as well was the latest drivers (1.22). I tested the drives w/out via 4-in-1 drivers, w/ via 4-in-1 drivers, w/out XP SP1, w/ XP SP1.. Same results each time. I also tried moving the Maxtor drives to the 2 channels the IBM's were on and put the IBM's on the 2 channels the Maxtor's were on (to be sure it wasnt something wrong w/ those 2 channels). The IBM's performed flawlessly, but the Maxtor's were still degraded.
I've currently emailed Highpoint, as there seems to be some sort of compatibility issue between the HPT374 and the Maxtor 53073U6 drives.
The next test I guess is to try the 2 drives on my Promise FastTrak100 TX2 card, but I'm guessing they'll work fine on it.
Any tips/suggestions from any of you folks?
Here's my problem. I recently purchased an Epox 8k5a3+. I've been enjoying great performance from the onboard HPT374 controller when using my 2 IBM 75GXP's (30gb ATA100) in RAID0. I recently purchased 2 Maxtor 53073U6 (30gb ATA66) drives. I connected them to the 2 remaining raid channels for the HPT374 and setup a large (4x 30gb) RAID0 array. After installing WinXP on it, I benchmarked it, and the throughput was horrid.
I then decided I should setup the original 2 ibm's in raid0 again to test out the Maxtor's. I again installed WinXP on the IBM array and benchmarked the Maxtor's on the HPT controller (in single drive mode as well as raid mode) (using ATTO and HD Tach). In a single drive config, the Maxtor's write speed was about on par, if a bit low. However write speed was very degraded (about 3MB/sec max).
I then tried the Maxtor's in RAID0, and the results are, if anything, worse than in a single drive config.
I then tested the 2 drives individually on the onboard IDE channels, and they perform as expected (~30mb/sec read, ~25mb/sec write).
I have the latest HPT bios installed (1.22 (hacked into the Epox 8/15/2002 BIOS) as well was the latest drivers (1.22). I tested the drives w/out via 4-in-1 drivers, w/ via 4-in-1 drivers, w/out XP SP1, w/ XP SP1.. Same results each time. I also tried moving the Maxtor drives to the 2 channels the IBM's were on and put the IBM's on the 2 channels the Maxtor's were on (to be sure it wasnt something wrong w/ those 2 channels). The IBM's performed flawlessly, but the Maxtor's were still degraded.
I've currently emailed Highpoint, as there seems to be some sort of compatibility issue between the HPT374 and the Maxtor 53073U6 drives.
The next test I guess is to try the 2 drives on my Promise FastTrak100 TX2 card, but I'm guessing they'll work fine on it.
Any tips/suggestions from any of you folks?
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