I'm lost with VIA 6410 Raid 0

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Kevin Miller

I've set up a RAID 0 with VIA 6410 and two exact Seagate 80mb
drives, separate channels, updated VIA drivers. Ironically, Sandra
scores 23677 Kbs - the same as a single ATA100 drive! Am I missing
something? I really was expecting a faster setup! Thanks!


Kevin Miller
 
I've set up a RAID 0 with VIA 6410 and two exact
Seagate 80mb drives, separate channels, updated VIA
drivers. Ironically, Sandra scores 23677 Kbs - the same
as a single ATA100 drive! Am I missing something?
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That Sandra is useless for that sort of benchmarking.

Try HDTach instead. It isnt free for NTFS
or the NT/2K/XP family of OSs tho.
I really was expecting a faster setup!
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You wouldnt be the first to be very disappointed with RAID 0.
 
Kevin Miller said:
I've set up a RAID 0 with VIA 6410 and two exact Seagate 80mb
drives, separate channels, updated VIA drivers. Ironically, Sandra
scores 23677 Kbs - the same as a single ATA100 drive! Am I missing
something? I really was expecting a faster setup! Thanks!


Kevin Miller
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Kevin, I have an asus p4p800D with the VIA 6410.

Check out its review on www.hardocp.com

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My complaints with the VIA RAID controller center around the CPU
utilization numbers and the RAID 0 performance. The RAID 0 performance
was lousy, especially in light of the fact that a RAID 1 array was
fully able to keep pace with it. And there is no excuse for a CPU
utilization of over 50% in all cases, when in all other testing
scenarios with other boards, the utilization doesn't break 10%.
I am a bit disappointed by the board's firewire
performance and I use the VIA just as an ide port. My sandra
score is about 36000 Kbs (200G WDJB) depending on the phase
of the moon of course.

Personally, I will avoid VIA as much as possible.

BTW, if you do have an asus p4p800, check your bios setting
for sata/pata, an incorrect setting may cause high
cpu utilization on the via 6410. YMMV.
 
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