My Results on Abit KR7A-133Raid Board (sandra)

[Boredmonkey]

SiSoftware Sandra Professional Results on Abit KR7A-133Raid Board.

1800 AMD with 512MB Muskin 2100 DDR.
2 Maxtor 40GB 7500rpm stripping 0 Mode 64kb Clusters NTFS formatted
ATI 8500DV

Drystone 4241
Whetstone 2124

Drive Index 25569
Test file size 511MB
Buffered Read 47MB/s
Sequential Read 37MB/s
Random Read 6MB/s
Buffered Write 38MB/s
Random Write 12MB/s
Average Access Time 9ms

This is slower than running with a single drive. I had..

Drive index 26387

Should I try another cluster size with the Raid? Like 16kb? Fat32?

Boredmonkey

 

[WhiteWizard]

Yes, FAT32 is faster, but the RAID should compensate. Weird.

Actual Data:
Sandra 2001se v 2002.1.8.59

File System Benchmark: 23523
Test File size: 511Mb
Buffered Read 45MB/s
Sequential Read 36MB/s
Random Read 5MB/s
Buffered Write 31MB/s
Sequential Write: 27 Mb/s
Random Write 8MB/s
Average Access Time 11ms

At the time of bench were running also Norton Antivirus 2002, ICQ 2001 and Internet adsl conection!

ASUS A7V266-E
Athlon 1.2B @1266Mhz
512Mb PC2100 unbranded
RAID 0 on 2xATA 100 15gb IBM DeskTar (Total volume 30Gb).
WinXp Pro

 

[billyjak]

I get with my 1900 Raid non raid setup this is at 1.668
4646 drystone
2300 whetstone

 

[nealh]

are you using the 2002 version???

 

[Boredmonkey]

Yes 2002... I also tried using 16kb clusters and Fat32. About the same scores. I wish I knew why the board wont take both of my Mushkin 512 DDR 2100 Ram. Maybe a bios upgrade will help with that. There are also Bios upgrades to the Highpoint at thier websit. Abit needs to get on the ball.

 

[nealh]

interestinlgy my snadra 2001 cpu scores were much higher vs sandra 2002...also snadra 2002(shareware version) has no memory bench except bandwidth

 

[Strych9]

There is thread after thread regarding the poor RAID performance w/Maxtor drives over at Amdmb.com. I'm trying to sort through it all and make some sense of it myself. My scores seem low also. I'm using two Maxtor D740X's on a KR7A-RAID. If anyone has info on this please post.