- Sep 30, 2004
- 61
- 0
- 66
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!
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). 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 (and NO I am not going to destroy my RAID array to benchmark!)
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). 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 (and NO I am not going to destroy my RAID array to benchmark!)
Facebook
Twitter