I think I've tried everything but something is still wrong.
My System;
MB: ASUS A7V33 w Promise onboard RAID controller
HD: 2 x Western Digital WD800JB SE (stripe/NTFS)
OS: Win2k
Transfer rates in SiSoft Sandra is never higher than 26 mb/s. Raid controller reports disk running in UDMA5. I've tried to increase the Latency Timer for the RAID controller but with no success. Also changed all ATA device drivers to latest VIA drivers.
Could the reason be that the strping block size (64kb) combined with NTFS cluster size (4kb) makes a very bad combination?
Should I change to FAT32?
Could it be any other PCI-unit that slows down my transfer rate?
Is the SiSoft Sandra reliable or is there a better benchmark?
According to what I've seen in the Storage Guide I should expect rates of around 2 times a single disk and with my WD´s with 8mb buffer it should be around 40 mb/s in Sandra.
I would appreciate any answers with ideas of the reason.
Thanx!
My System;
MB: ASUS A7V33 w Promise onboard RAID controller
HD: 2 x Western Digital WD800JB SE (stripe/NTFS)
OS: Win2k
Transfer rates in SiSoft Sandra is never higher than 26 mb/s. Raid controller reports disk running in UDMA5. I've tried to increase the Latency Timer for the RAID controller but with no success. Also changed all ATA device drivers to latest VIA drivers.
Could the reason be that the strping block size (64kb) combined with NTFS cluster size (4kb) makes a very bad combination?
Should I change to FAT32?
Could it be any other PCI-unit that slows down my transfer rate?
Is the SiSoft Sandra reliable or is there a better benchmark?
According to what I've seen in the Storage Guide I should expect rates of around 2 times a single disk and with my WD´s with 8mb buffer it should be around 40 mb/s in Sandra.
I would appreciate any answers with ideas of the reason.
Thanx!