Raid 0,1 w/ 7400rpm competes with Raid 1 10K rpm

[AMD Die Hard]

How acurate is Sandra 2004? I have 4 maxtor ATA133 80gb 7400 rpm drives in a Raid 0,1 running on a highpoint tech rocketraid133 PCI card formatted nfts. My drives benchmark for Sandra was 54 MB/sec. In the same machine, I have 2 WD raptors @ 10K also ntfs running at Raid 1 on the onboard Raid chip on my K8n Neo2 Platinum - the test result for that drive was 60 MB/sec (62 MB/sec before I filled it up with junk). Oh yea, thats right I have 6 hard drives in one machine! Now these test results are really close and far outpace what Sandra reports comparable drives perform at. i say comparable becasue sandra doesn't list my drive setup. They show ATA 100 2xraid0 80 gb @ 65 mb/sec and a SCSI 160 36gb 10k rpm at 33 MB/sec. Alright, maybe my Raid 0,1 drive isn't outpacing the raid 0 setup, but the Raid 1 10k definitly outpaces the SCSI drive @ 10k by almost double.

Is this benchmark accurate? What do you think? I know when I move large files between these drives it does fly. I copied a 30 GB music folder all in one shot from the 10k to the raid 0,1 in about 18 minutes. I think thats really like 2.7 MB/sec. Not that I am complaining, this mutha flies, but whats up with that sandra score?

 

[GoSharks]

sandra is POS drive benchmark.

 

[LTC8K6]

You could try HDtach.

 

[AMD Die Hard]

I just tried HDtach, the Nvidia SATA RAID 1 ran at 125 MB/sec and the Hypoint ATA133 RAID 0,1 ran at 112 MB/sec. The reference straight SATA 150 was listed as 150 MB/sec (that makes sense). So I guess I am paying a 17% speed penalty for the RAID 1 setup on this drive. The highpoint RAID 0,1 is more interesting. They list a reference drive of Maxtor diamond Max D740X at 35.9 MB/sec - thats a single drive, the same as I have 4 of. They list a RAID 0 ATA, VIA VT6410, 2x Maxtor Diamond Max plus 9 with 92.8 MB/sec - thats the closest thing. All of their ata raids range fom 92.8 - 64.3 MB/sec. The fastest SATA RAID 0 setup they list is VIA v8237, 2x WD raptor WD74 which comes in at 129.5 MB/sec, which is only a 3.5% faster than my RAID 1 setup. Either my hypoint card absolutely rocks or the references uploaded by other users are slow.

So, the HD tach puts my SATA RAID 1 11% faster than my ATA133 RAID 0,1 (125 v. 112) and Sandra puts the SATA RAID 1 also 11% faster than my ATA133 RAID 0,1 (60 v. 54). Well I guess that answers my question. Even though I doubt the speeds reported by these benchmarking programs, they did both come up with the same speed differential between the two drives - 11%

Whats all this talk about RAID 0 not mattering? I'd say this RAID 0,1 setup competed pretty well against the 10K SATA drive. I highly doubt a single Maxtor ATA 133 could do that.

 

[sharkeeper]

How acurate is Sandra 2004?

About as stable as a table with 200kg of big macs and a missing leg.

STOP USING SANDRA! IT'S ABOUT AS REGULAR AS JOHN KERRY FOR CRISSAKES!

Cheers!

 

[Bugler]

Originally posted by: AMD Die Hard
I just tried HDtach, the Nvidia SATA RAID 1 ran at 125 MB/sec and the Hypoint ATA133 RAID 0,1 ran at 112 MB/sec. The reference straight SATA 150 was listed as 150 MB/sec (that makes sense). So I guess I am paying a 17% speed penalty for the RAID 1 setup on this drive. The highpoint RAID 0,1 is more interesting. They list a reference drive of Maxtor diamond Max D740X at 35.9 MB/sec - thats a single drive, the same as I have 4 of. They list a RAID 0 ATA, VIA VT6410, 2x Maxtor Diamond Max plus 9 with 92.8 MB/sec - thats the closest thing. All of their ata raids range fom 92.8 - 64.3 MB/sec. The fastest SATA RAID 0 setup they list is VIA v8237, 2x WD raptor WD74 which comes in at 129.5 MB/sec, which is only a 3.5% faster than my RAID 1 setup. Either my hypoint card absolutely rocks or the references uploaded by other users are slow.

So, the HD tach puts my SATA RAID 1 11% faster than my ATA133 RAID 0,1 (125 v. 112) and Sandra puts the SATA RAID 1 also 11% faster than my ATA133 RAID 0,1 (60 v. 54). Well I guess that answers my question. Even though I doubt the speeds reported by these benchmarking programs, they did both come up with the same speed differential between the two drives - 11%

Whats all this talk about RAID 0 not mattering? I'd say this RAID 0,1 setup competed pretty well against the 10K SATA drive. I highly doubt a single Maxtor ATA 133 could do that.

I don't believe previous reviews said raid 0 did not matter period. I believe the conclusion what that while it did provide some benefit in the server setting, it provided little useable benefit in desktop setups based upon applications normally run by those setups.