Raid 0 test for real speed!

[sss]

Ok... today my new HDD's arrived they are

Seagate 320GB 16meg, SATA 2 drives, 7200rpm version 10

Im running a gigbyte board with NVRAID.

Tonight i will install a single drive with windows xp pro... install the nvidia ide drivers and then install bf2 and sisoft sandra.

I'll do a bench with sisoft... and then see how long bf2 takes to load a 64 player map single player

Then i'll reinstall now with both drives in a raid config 0 and do the same test!

If there are any other tools out there i should bench with .. say so here so i can download them now!

Also gotta work out how to actually install raid and xp at the same time!

[Ruslan74]

to be honest i think BF2 will load under 10 seconds as per other benchmarks done at other sites... with dual raptors that drops to 6 secs flat... EINA!

[stoke]

Install RAID + XP ... make sure you've got a working stiffy drive and WORKING STIFFY.
Put the RAID drivers on there and make dead sure the damn stiffy disk is okay before you RAID the drives.
You're going to have to : "Press F9 [i think] to install 3rd party drivers now" !
I wasted 3 hours cos of a faulty stiffy that seem't to work okay but was loading the drivers corrupted - damn winxp install was like: "yea ... dem driver files were read from disk okay", meanwhile ... actually ... no ... the driver files were not being read okay at all.
Grrrrrr.

[Ruslan74]

Its F6 Stoke and yeah, a stiffy still has its uses afterall!

@SSS - do you mind providing us with steps you took in the whole RAID 0 thingie? thinking of doing that soon too.

[sss]

bugger.. i dont have a stiffy drive nor do i have a stiffy.. how about a mem stick? ... i wonder!!!

[Bass]

Hmmm - think you HAVE to use a stiffy !!

When creating / destroying a RAID set you lose all the data on the drives (obviously).

[sss]

maybe i can boot off my ide drive and then do something!!!
hmm... lemme go read documentation

[sss]

man this looks like a schlep!!!

[Ruslan74]

sadly a windows XP installation REQUIRES the stiffy drive. no workaround that yet.

[Bass]

Nope - you need to set this up just after post normally ... there is a raid utility you need to get into.