Raptor Performance Help

[Gnomer]

I just recently bought two of the 72 GB Raptors,
I have them in a Raid 0, using the onboard Intel SATA Raid controller, (I have an Asus 865 mobo)
And I benchmarked them, including PCMark04 and Win Bench, the same one used on this site..
Now in Win Bench in the Business Application I scored a 13,700, while they got 13,300, so that's good.
But in the High End Application Performance I only scored a 48,000, to their 62,200.

And in PCMark04 I scored:

XP Booting 16.78 MB/s
Application Loading 10.31 MB/s
File Copying 40.33 MB/s
General HDD Usage 10.31 MB/s

Is this right? It seems a little slow to me after hearing how fast Raptors are, or maybe I'm just ignorant.

Would I need a better controller card to make it faster? I have a FastTrak controller in there holding my other Seagate SATA drive, and when I had that raided with my Raptors, it scored less then on the Intel controller.

My comp is a Pentium 4 3GHz.

 

[Clob]

Well. Are you using these on a PCI buss? Also dual Raptors in raid0 that being used for anything other than pure file transfer is a waste of money. The performance difference is very marginal. 40mbs seems very slow for file transfer, make sure everything is updated and your array is set up correctly.

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