Just built a new computer, it's a screamer!
Three hard drives and 1 DVD drive are connected to SATA interfaces. Two hard drives are used as RAID 0. With this motherboard if you use the RAID controller, all SATA interfaces now go through the RAID controller and you appear to lose a lot, for example I can't tell what is using DMA.
Using Opti Drive I see that the DVD drive is very slow, maximum of 4X with CD. Older parallel IDE DVD drive on same motherboard gets up to 44X with same CD. However burst speed of SATA DVD is 46 MB/s and burst speed of IDE DVD is 33 MB/s.
Why is the throughput of the SATA DVD so slow?
Is there any way to connect the SATA DVD without going through RAID controller and still keep the RAID on the hard drives?
Any help is appreciated!!
Windows 7 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 LGA1366 X58 RTL
CPU Intel Core I7 920 2.66GHz 45n R LGA1366
Memory: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TR3X6G1600C8 G 2GBx3
HD 750GB (2 ea) Western Digital 7k 32m SATA2 WD7501AALS Black Caviar
HD 150 GB Western Digital WD1500HLFS Velociraptor
DVD burner: Sony-NEC AD-7241S-0B
Graphics: PNY Nvidia Quadro LVCQFX380-PCIE-PB FX380 RT
Card Reader: Nippon ICR-BB R
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W RT
Three hard drives and 1 DVD drive are connected to SATA interfaces. Two hard drives are used as RAID 0. With this motherboard if you use the RAID controller, all SATA interfaces now go through the RAID controller and you appear to lose a lot, for example I can't tell what is using DMA.
Using Opti Drive I see that the DVD drive is very slow, maximum of 4X with CD. Older parallel IDE DVD drive on same motherboard gets up to 44X with same CD. However burst speed of SATA DVD is 46 MB/s and burst speed of IDE DVD is 33 MB/s.
Why is the throughput of the SATA DVD so slow?
Is there any way to connect the SATA DVD without going through RAID controller and still keep the RAID on the hard drives?
Any help is appreciated!!
Windows 7 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 LGA1366 X58 RTL
CPU Intel Core I7 920 2.66GHz 45n R LGA1366
Memory: Corsair XMS3 DDR3 TR3X6G1600C8 G 2GBx3
HD 750GB (2 ea) Western Digital 7k 32m SATA2 WD7501AALS Black Caviar
HD 150 GB Western Digital WD1500HLFS Velociraptor
DVD burner: Sony-NEC AD-7241S-0B
Graphics: PNY Nvidia Quadro LVCQFX380-PCIE-PB FX380 RT
Card Reader: Nippon ICR-BB R
PSU: Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W RT