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1. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Scott Chichelli May 26, 2010 11:03 AM (in response to Studio North Films)good chance its the motherboard you used. it would not have been my choice.
you should be hitting 195-215 for a 2 drive raid 0.
i have not tried the samsung drives so who knows...
what #s do you get with onboard raid 0?
Scott
ADK
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2. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Studio North Films May 26, 2010 11:24 AM (in response to Scott Chichelli)hi, scott
samsung drives have been used by plenty on this forum and have had very good results, I was limited to what motherboard i could get as i am using 2x xeon cpu's (engineering samples).
what would you have choosen ???
baz
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3. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Scott Chichelli May 26, 2010 12:02 PM (in response to Studio North Films)Tyan (server class) or Intel.
the Asus is not server class.
scott
ADK
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4. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Bill Gehrke May 26, 2010 12:18 PM (in response to Studio North Films)Sounds like the same problem I had several years back when I got an early Supermicro X7DWA-N Dual Xeon Motherboard After a lot of frustration and several months of waiting and trial and errors Supermicro finally got the BIOS corrected and now my ARC 1680i runs beautifully. Go after Asus, or return it and get another brand of motherboard.
P.S. Why not just go with a single socket motherboard that you can then overclock. If you look at Scotts ADK's benchmarking site you will see that there are no known advantages going with dual Xeon's over a slightly overclocked single i7 processor. You might have to check standard single 1366 socket motherboards to see if it will play well with your samples.
Message was edited by: Bill Gehrke
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5. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Harm Millaard May 26, 2010 12:56 PM (in response to Studio North Films)Baz,
I tend to agree with both Scott and Bill that it might be the mobo.
You know I have the same controller card (the 12 port one) and I use the older Spinpoint F1's, that are somewhat slower than the F3's and my HD Tach results are like this:
I find it hard to believe that two cards give this trouble and that is why I think both Scott and Bill are on the right track.
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6. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Studio North Films May 29, 2010 2:57 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)OK
I tried both cards in my i7 Setup with a Asus P6T 7WS , 1st card faied,. 2nd card working fine.
I tried a Raid 0 with 4x samsung HD103SJ HD Tach long Test Ave: 540 with Burst of 1100 +
single drive on Raid Card Ave: 120
so looking promising so far.
will keep you guys posted with further results.
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thanks to all for your info.
Baz
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7. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Studio North Films May 27, 2010 1:08 PM (in response to Studio North Films)OK
Pc is starting to come together.
some more results with only 6 hd in raid 0. with stock memory 512mb.
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8. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Harm Millaard May 27, 2010 1:48 PM (in response to Studio North Films)Baz,
What you are seeing now is that you are approaching the limits of the PCIe bus, adding more disks will only give you marginal improvements. I have seen the same with my setup when I went from 10 to 12 disks, only very small improvements. If I ever decide on adding more disks to my array, it will be 2 hot-spares and maybe 2 for expansion, so effectively 2 x (7 + 1 HS) in Raid30. That is the effective maximum from a performance POV.
BTW, I may have to upgrade my processor, it is showing to be my new bottleneck.
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9. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Studio North Films May 29, 2010 2:56 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Harm
How come your sub score is past the 7.9 ???
baz
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10. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Harm Millaard May 29, 2010 4:51 AM (in response to Studio North Films)GRIN.
I modified the results file a bit.
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11. Re: ARECA RAID CARD PROBLEMS
Studio North Films May 29, 2010 5:20 AM (in response to Harm Millaard)Harm give us a tip of how to modify the file.






