RAID references

[allgoodpeople]

I'm trying to get a feel for what most people are getting out of their RAID arrays, so I can find out how mine is performing. I'm running RAID-0 on the old ABIT KT7A-RAID board. Any one with a similar system that can let me know what sorts of numbers they're getting? I'm using SiSOft Sandra 2001 for benchmarking purposes

allgoodpeople




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[FatBurger]

Might help if you posted the hard drives used and your score.

I have two Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 30GB drives on an old Iwill ATA66 RAID card, and I pull about 32k in Sandra.

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[allgoodpeople]

I'm using 2 30 GB IBM Deskstar HDD's in RAID0. My scores are actually kind of odd, so maybe someone could explain them too. I have XP and 98SE installed, so i have the disk partitioned into a C, D, and E drive. C has 98SE, D has XP, and E is just regular files (MP3s, video, documents, etc). All 3 are FAT 32.

On the C drive, i get a score around 26000. On D, i get around 22000, and on E i get around 41000. Obviously it varies, but they tend to be within that range, plus our minus a couple thousand points. The scores are similar in XP and 98SE. Why would i get such different scores on different partitions? Both C and D are below the Sandra reference scores, but E is well above. They do have different cluster sizes, would that make a difference?

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[camieabz]

Sometimes it depends on the amount of data on the partitions. An empty partition throws up a better score than a full one.

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[flamethrower205]

IMO, we should do HDTACH scores- I get low in sandra, but *)MB/s w/ only 2 D740x's on a TX2000.

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