Ok so I have 2 identical crucial m500 120gb SSD drives.
I wanted to increase performance in my new gaming PC so I first had one in and tested the read speeds using HDTune and I got a minimum of 156MB/s and a max of 456 MB/s average 276MB/s
I also tested with skyrim and Starcraft 2 for loading times.
I put the other drive in the system and I setup the raid in the bios and then installed win7 making sure to have the same drives and software ran the test again with the same system and got lower overall scores than the single drive.
The min was 144MB/s and max 495MB/s with a lower average from the single at 256MB/s.
I noticed no improvement in loading times in either game also.
Can anyone shed some light on why this might be the case? I understand that in real world terms there might be little increase but I was definitely expecting a significant increase in benchmark performance at least.
Thanks heaps for your help!!
I wanted to increase performance in my new gaming PC so I first had one in and tested the read speeds using HDTune and I got a minimum of 156MB/s and a max of 456 MB/s average 276MB/s
I also tested with skyrim and Starcraft 2 for loading times.
I put the other drive in the system and I setup the raid in the bios and then installed win7 making sure to have the same drives and software ran the test again with the same system and got lower overall scores than the single drive.
The min was 144MB/s and max 495MB/s with a lower average from the single at 256MB/s.
I noticed no improvement in loading times in either game also.
Can anyone shed some light on why this might be the case? I understand that in real world terms there might be little increase but I was definitely expecting a significant increase in benchmark performance at least.
Thanks heaps for your help!!
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