Why is my 40mbs Drive faster than my raid 0 raptor

[willfreund]

My Flash IDE drive thats 400mbits a second/ 40 megabytes a second loads up windows in 2 Seconds. My raptor drive (74x2)in dual raid takes about 30 seconds, and bechmarks at 98 mbs average on hdspeed full, on quick 110 mbs average.
?I cant understand why my slower flash ide drive is like 10times faster

 

[imported_Kensai]

It's because the motherboard needs time to detect the RAID arrays and etc. etc.

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Those of us who are serious Windows users leave our systems running 24/7

 

[willfreund]

Sure mr "Tux".
I know thats best but My CeleronD runs 70C, and ive double checked its burned in and tight. Anyways any clue? I was thinking of buying these 200 mbit a second flashdrive and sell them as something faster than a raptor, but not sure why there slower than a raptor, i mean whats latency with a hardrive

 

[Calin]

It's because your RAID hardware drive will have to wait like 4 milliseconds for every read from a different sector. This is totally unlike the RAM-based drives (or flash based) that will happily return data from any area of the drive instantly (with no supplemental wait time)

 

[willfreund]

Thanks calin that must be the bottleneck, I think all pick one of these drive out and benchmark them on winstone