WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:06.080 So guys, this is the moment I am finally 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:11.759 testing my 9260 8i RAID card with a configuration that I 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:15.759 think can make it reach an internal bottleneck. 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:23.519 Holy crow, look at that. So I have taken my 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:26.560 dual Elmrest configuration and I have 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:31.599 doubled it. So, I'm running four Intel 00:00:26.560 --> 00:00:36.000 SSD 510 series 120 GB drives in RAID 00:00:31.599 --> 00:00:38.079 zero using a 128 kilo kilo bit 128k 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:42.480 stripe and all of the other options that I 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:47.680 found to be quite optimal. So, here you can actually see my results with two 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:49.760 drives and uh these are my preliminary 00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:55.680 results with a single drive. Focus please. Come on, focus. You can focus. 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, 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 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:11.280 1.5 megabytes per second read. And that 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:16.799 seems to be hitting an internal bottleneck on the RAID card itself. And 00:01:14.320 --> 00:01:21.680 then for rights, you can see the rights are just monstrous. So the rights are 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:28.159 actually still scaling from two drives to four drives almost exactly double. So 00:01:25.360 --> 00:01:34.320 we're looking at almost 1 Gigabyte per second sequential write speeds to these 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 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:42.799 test to finish and then I'll show you guys the final results. 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:48.560 Okay, so I finished running Crystal Disc Mark as well as PC Mark Vantage. So you 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:53.280 can see here the suite has finished running. So on the left I have the four 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:58.159 drive array. You can see that random performance doesn't scale uh especially 00:01:55.759 --> 00:02:03.360 on the right side quite as well as the sequential performance. On the right, I 00:02:00.479 --> 00:02:07.920 have dual drives on the onboard controller because really the only 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:14.560 reason to run a third-party controller on a P67 motherboard would be 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 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.840 based on testing two drives on this controller, the 9260 against two drives 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:28.400 on the onboard, performance was very similar. So, we're looking at whether 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:33.200 you would get any benefit from going to four drives from two drives using a 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:38.239 third party controller, which you would need to do because no P67 motherboard 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:42.959 supports more than two SATA 36 GB per second drives in RAID zero. So, here 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:48.080 you've got the Crystal Disc Mark performance numbers. And here the PC 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:54.319 Mark Vantage numbers are a bit of a mystery. So, I'll just show you the 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:57.920 actual scores here. So hold on, let me just try and remember 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 00:03:00.959 --> 00:03:10.800 megs per second in as the No, that's the 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:13.120 PC mark score. Yeah, 66,644 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:19.120 hard drive PC mark score. Whereas with the four drive RAID zero, we have 58,537 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:23.519 PC mark score. All right. So, the onboard RAID zero with two drives 00:03:20.959 --> 00:03:27.280 actually scores better overall than the four drive RAID zero array. But 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 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:35.519 results. So, you can see here, actually, why don't I put these side by 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:40.640 side so you can compare them more easily. 00:03:37.440 --> 00:03:42.319 Yeah, that'll do. 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 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 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:56.640 onboard controller with two drives. So you can see the four drive RAID zero 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:59.040 array cleanly beats the onboard two 00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:03.840 drive array which it should so it should in everything but video editing using 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:07.920 Windows Live Movie Maker and Windows Media Center where this one destroys it. 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:11.680 So, this looks like it's actually skewing the results overall because you 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:17.199 can see as you get further down, adding music, uh, application loading, things 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:21.759 like uh, antivirus, these all score dramatically better on the four drive 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 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:29.759 dandy mark reader, and that is going to 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:36.560 be the two drives on the RAID controller 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:40.560 rather than on the onboard. So you can see that the score is actually quite 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:47.600 similar. Look at that. So it looks like our performance doesn't scale that much 00:04:44.160 --> 00:04:50.560 with the add-in RAID controller, the LSI 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:54.320 controller by adding more drives. So there you have it. It looks like two 00:04:52.320 --> 00:04:57.759 drives is about all that we are able to leverage with PC Mark Vantage. I mean 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:01.360 you can see the scores do improve a little bit. This is four drives. This is 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:07.039 two drives, but that's pretty much it. So, thanks guys for checking out this 00:05:02.960 --> 00:05:09.919 video on running four Intel SSD 510 SATA 00:05:07.039 --> 00:05:13.039 3 6 GB per second drives against two drives. Don't forget to subscribe to 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:18.039 Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.