So guys, this is the moment I am finally
testing my 9260 8i RAID card with a configuration that I
think can make it reach an internal bottleneck.
Holy crow, look at that. So I have taken my
dual Elmrest configuration and I have
doubled it. So, I'm running four Intel
SSD 510 series 120 GB drives in RAID
zero using a 128 kilo kilo bit 128k
stripe and all of the other options that I
found to be quite optimal. So, here you can actually see my results with two
drives and uh these are my preliminary
results with a single drive. Focus please. Come on, focus. You can focus.
There you go. Okay, so I'm running five tests at 4 gigs across my 445 gig drive,
which is those four drives in RAID zero. And it looks like we're looking at about
1.5 megabytes per second read. And that
seems to be hitting an internal bottleneck on the RAID card itself. And
then for rights, you can see the rights are just monstrous. So the rights are
actually still scaling from two drives to four drives almost exactly double. So
we're looking at almost 1 Gigabyte per second sequential write speeds to these
four Intel 510 series drives. So I'm going to just wait for the rest of the
test to finish and then I'll show you guys the final results.
Okay, so I finished running Crystal Disc Mark as well as PC Mark Vantage. So you
can see here the suite has finished running. So on the left I have the four
drive array. You can see that random performance doesn't scale uh especially
on the right side quite as well as the sequential performance. On the right, I
have dual drives on the onboard controller because really the only
reason to run a third-party controller on a P67 motherboard would be
if you want to run more than two 6 GB per second SSD drives in RAID zero. So
based on testing two drives on this controller, the 9260 against two drives
on the onboard, performance was very similar. So, we're looking at whether
you would get any benefit from going to four drives from two drives using a
third party controller, which you would need to do because no P67 motherboard
supports more than two SATA 36 GB per second drives in RAID zero. So, here
you've got the Crystal Disc Mark performance numbers. And here the PC
Mark Vantage numbers are a bit of a mystery. So, I'll just show you the
actual scores here. So hold on, let me just try and remember
which is which. Yeah, here we go. So here's the onboard rate where we have 66
megs per second in as the No, that's the
PC mark score. Yeah, 66,644
hard drive PC mark score. Whereas with the four drive RAID zero, we have 58,537
PC mark score. All right. So, the onboard RAID zero with two drives
actually scores better overall than the four drive RAID zero array. But
we don't really understand why that is until we go a little bit deeper into the
results. So, you can see here, actually, why don't I put these side by
side so you can compare them more easily.
Yeah, that'll do.
Okay. Okay, so at the bottom we have our RAID zero or rather on the left we have
our RAID zero with four drives and on the right we have our RAID zero on the
onboard controller with two drives. So you can see the four drive RAID zero
array cleanly beats the onboard two
drive array which it should so it should in everything but video editing using
Windows Live Movie Maker and Windows Media Center where this one destroys it.
So, this looks like it's actually skewing the results overall because you
can see as you get further down, adding music, uh, application loading, things
like uh, antivirus, these all score dramatically better on the four drive
RAID zero array. So, I'm going to pull out one more result here using my handy
dandy mark reader, and that is going to
be the two drives on the RAID controller
rather than on the onboard. So you can see that the score is actually quite
similar. Look at that. So it looks like our performance doesn't scale that much
with the add-in RAID controller, the LSI
controller by adding more drives. So there you have it. It looks like two
drives is about all that we are able to leverage with PC Mark Vantage. I mean
you can see the scores do improve a little bit. This is four drives. This is
two drives, but that's pretty much it. So, thanks guys for checking out this
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