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I was messing around today because I'm stranded at home until a friend brings me my truck from moving back (she took all my keys on accident) so I had the chance to apply and test the 840 EVO fix; I also wanted to try out Windows Storage Spaces in 8.1 to see if they really did improve anything and see if perhaps it was faster than the Intel RSAT option.
I'm no stranger to Storage Spaces as I run all Windows Server 2012 R2 servers now and have a few new clients that elected to use it before I took over doing IT for their business (they declined a hardware RAID controller, pretty much the el-cheap-o server builds).
My build for reference purposes:
2 x Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB (120 GB, SATA-III)
1 x LITEONIT LMT-64M6M mSATA 64GB (64 GB, SATA-III)
1 x Intel 3570k @ 4.9 Ghz
4 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance (Quad Channel - CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9)
1 x Asus ROG Maximus V Formula (Bios 1903)
1 x Corsair H100i
1 x ASUS BC-12B1ST Blu-Ray Drive
2 x AMD Radeon R9 270X DD (XFX)
Software:
Intel RST \ RAID 0 - Intel RST 13.2.4.1000
Windows Spaces \ Simple - Windows 8.1 Professional
Notes:
It seems to me that the Windows Storage Spaces driver isn't actually doing any splitting of data at all, and that was doing 1000 MB on Crystal DiskMark.
I'm going to dig a bit deeper and see if what I have is consistent as I'm building a new server with pure SSD in it right now so I'll have the chance to test it vs Storage Spaces in Server 2012 R2 performance wise.
(I see the forum auto-resizes the images so I just linked the full size).
Random days are random!
I'm no stranger to Storage Spaces as I run all Windows Server 2012 R2 servers now and have a few new clients that elected to use it before I took over doing IT for their business (they declined a hardware RAID controller, pretty much the el-cheap-o server builds).
My build for reference purposes:
2 x Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB (120 GB, SATA-III)
1 x LITEONIT LMT-64M6M mSATA 64GB (64 GB, SATA-III)
1 x Intel 3570k @ 4.9 Ghz
4 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance (Quad Channel - CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9)
1 x Asus ROG Maximus V Formula (Bios 1903)
1 x Corsair H100i
1 x ASUS BC-12B1ST Blu-Ray Drive
2 x AMD Radeon R9 270X DD (XFX)
Software:
Intel RST \ RAID 0 - Intel RST 13.2.4.1000
Windows Spaces \ Simple - Windows 8.1 Professional
Notes:
- I didn't really have any noticeable performance loss for these two so I'm not really surprised at the fact that the fix didn't do anything for me.
- I didn't run the disk mark before doing the fix with 0% data for some reason, not enough coffee I suppose.
- Disregard the mSATA, it's the OS Disk.
- The RAID is setup purely as a data environment so no active anything on the drive before the test was run. The software in the OS is a fresh install so nothing running in the background.
- Ran TRIM collection on all steps to ensure it did garbage collection before running benchmark.
- I ran each test more than once, but when the results were about the same I just left one screen shot in there with the exception of Storage Spaces.
It seems to me that the Windows Storage Spaces driver isn't actually doing any splitting of data at all, and that was doing 1000 MB on Crystal DiskMark.
I'm going to dig a bit deeper and see if what I have is consistent as I'm building a new server with pure SSD in it right now so I'll have the chance to test it vs Storage Spaces in Server 2012 R2 performance wise.
(I see the forum auto-resizes the images so I just linked the full size).
Random days are random!
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