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RAID Scores?

jdogg707

jdogg707

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I have two, 80GB Western Digital Hard Drives running at 7200RPM and UDMA100 with 2MB of cache. It's attached to my Epox 4G4A+ Highpoint controller using two Coolermaster rouunded cables and cooled by a 2900RPM Case fan. When I run the Sandra benchmark I only get a score of 28,916 while an average RAID 0 setup with 40GB drives gets a score of 36,000...what is holding me back here? Any help?
 
Sandra is known for reporting erroneous hard drive scores. You should try a standalone drive benchmark like HD Tach.
 
I really dont know how Sandra gets its reference figures. Sometimes they are really high for the average setup. My 4 drive 36LP x15 array scores a 81,339. Atto shows it running as high as 181MBPS.
 
Hmmm, well, I just installed the newest drivers and my score went up to 30,016, but that's still not where I want it...I'm confused. Anyway, could it be my cluster size? I've got it set on 64K clusters right now...
 
I tried using PC Mark and got a score of 1503 on the HD test...any difference? I'm thinking about just getting a hardware raid card and not even using the motherboard stuff....
 
I had several IDE raid setups, and they never got to the reference levels listed in Sandra. I havent used IDE for a long while though.
 
Originally posted by: jdogg707
I tried using PC Mark and got a score of 1503 on the HD test...any difference? I'm thinking about just getting a hardware raid card and not even using the motherboard stuff....
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I believe mobo stuff uses software - and you have higher scores if you ran it with hardware. But going scsi - now that's totally different. 😛

edit: i use the ATTO benchmarking software instead of Sisoft.
 
my 15,000 cheetah,,,,with 29160 card gets 1132 i had another 30 gig 7,200 rpm drive attached to a ide channel and tested the same drive and got 592 pc,,,i removed(unpluged and reboot)the ibm ata 100 drive and my scores went back up,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,there is also a cool feature in the atto downloads that lets you set up your harddrive for either mainly video or for file writing (im not to familliar with what it is but i have it set on video)
 
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