1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:06,080 So guys, this is the moment I am finally 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:11,759 testing my 9260 8i RAID card with a configuration that I 3 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:15,759 think can make it reach an internal bottleneck. 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:23,519 Holy crow, look at that. So I have taken my 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:26,560 dual Elmrest configuration and I have 6 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:31,599 doubled it. So, I'm running four Intel 7 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:36,000 SSD 510 series 120 GB drives in RAID 8 00:00:31,599 --> 00:00:38,079 zero using a 128 kilo kilo bit 128k 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,480 stripe and all of the other options that I 10 00:00:40,239 --> 00:00:47,680 found to be quite optimal. So, here you can actually see my results with two 11 00:00:44,399 --> 00:00:49,760 drives and uh these are my preliminary 12 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:55,680 results with a single drive. Focus please. Come on, focus. You can focus. 13 00:00:53,199 --> 00:01:03,920 There you go. Okay, so I'm running five tests at 4 gigs across my 445 gig drive, 14 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:07,600 which is those four drives in RAID zero. And it looks like we're looking at about 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,280 1.5 megabytes per second read. And that 16 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:16,799 seems to be hitting an internal bottleneck on the RAID card itself. And 17 00:01:14,320 --> 00:01:21,680 then for rights, you can see the rights are just monstrous. So the rights are 18 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:28,159 actually still scaling from two drives to four drives almost exactly double. So 19 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:34,320 we're looking at almost 1 Gigabyte per second sequential write speeds to these 20 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:36,720 four Intel 510 series drives. So I'm going to just wait for the rest of the 21 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:42,799 test to finish and then I'll show you guys the final results. 22 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:48,560 Okay, so I finished running Crystal Disc Mark as well as PC Mark Vantage. So you 23 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:53,280 can see here the suite has finished running. So on the left I have the four 24 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:58,159 drive array. You can see that random performance doesn't scale uh especially 25 00:01:55,759 --> 00:02:03,360 on the right side quite as well as the sequential performance. On the right, I 26 00:02:00,479 --> 00:02:07,920 have dual drives on the onboard controller because really the only 27 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:14,560 reason to run a third-party controller on a P67 motherboard would be 28 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:19,920 if you want to run more than two 6 GB per second SSD drives in RAID zero. So 29 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,840 based on testing two drives on this controller, the 9260 against two drives 30 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:28,400 on the onboard, performance was very similar. So, we're looking at whether 31 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:33,200 you would get any benefit from going to four drives from two drives using a 32 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:38,239 third party controller, which you would need to do because no P67 motherboard 33 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:42,959 supports more than two SATA 36 GB per second drives in RAID zero. So, here 34 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:48,080 you've got the Crystal Disc Mark performance numbers. And here the PC 35 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:54,319 Mark Vantage numbers are a bit of a mystery. So, I'll just show you the 36 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:57,920 actual scores here. So hold on, let me just try and remember 37 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:05,680 which is which. Yeah, here we go. So here's the onboard rate where we have 66 38 00:03:00,959 --> 00:03:10,800 megs per second in as the No, that's the 39 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:13,120 PC mark score. Yeah, 66,644 40 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:19,120 hard drive PC mark score. Whereas with the four drive RAID zero, we have 58,537 41 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:23,519 PC mark score. All right. So, the onboard RAID zero with two drives 42 00:03:20,959 --> 00:03:27,280 actually scores better overall than the four drive RAID zero array. But 43 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,840 we don't really understand why that is until we go a little bit deeper into the 44 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:35,519 results. So, you can see here, actually, why don't I put these side by 45 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,640 side so you can compare them more easily. 46 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,319 Yeah, that'll do. 47 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:46,959 Okay. Okay, so at the bottom we have our RAID zero or rather on the left we have 48 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:50,400 our RAID zero with four drives and on the right we have our RAID zero on the 49 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:56,640 onboard controller with two drives. So you can see the four drive RAID zero 50 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:59,040 array cleanly beats the onboard two 51 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:03,840 drive array which it should so it should in everything but video editing using 52 00:04:00,879 --> 00:04:07,920 Windows Live Movie Maker and Windows Media Center where this one destroys it. 53 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:11,680 So, this looks like it's actually skewing the results overall because you 54 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:17,199 can see as you get further down, adding music, uh, application loading, things 55 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:21,759 like uh, antivirus, these all score dramatically better on the four drive 56 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:27,840 RAID zero array. So, I'm going to pull out one more result here using my handy 57 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:29,759 dandy mark reader, and that is going to 58 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:36,560 be the two drives on the RAID controller 59 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:40,560 rather than on the onboard. So you can see that the score is actually quite 60 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:47,600 similar. Look at that. So it looks like our performance doesn't scale that much 61 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:50,560 with the add-in RAID controller, the LSI 62 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,320 controller by adding more drives. So there you have it. It looks like two 63 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:57,759 drives is about all that we are able to leverage with PC Mark Vantage. I mean 64 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,360 you can see the scores do improve a little bit. This is four drives. This is 65 00:04:59,759 --> 00:05:07,039 two drives, but that's pretty much it. 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