No they ain't right. What mobo you using? if it is a VIA based motherboard then you should install one of the latency patches. Also what Stripe and Cluster size are you using?
They just ain't what they should be. They should be much better than that. Stripe size is determined when you first set up your RAID array, you can probably find out by going into you RAID bios. It will probably either be 64K or 16K by default, and as for your cluster size, well that will have been determined when you formated you RAID array partition, but if you didn't go out your way to format to any other cluster size than standard then it will be probably 4K. Presuming your using Windows XP.
That may be just the problem. Idealy, you want to have exactly the same stripe/cluster size i.e 16K/16K, or least around abouts the same i.e 16K/32K etc etc.
You need to find out exactly what stripe size you are using on your RAID array, and if by chance, you are using say 16K (which is a pretty all round good setting), you then need to either reformat or convert you RAID arrays partition to a more suitable cluster size, e.g 16K. To convert you will need to get your hands on, either Partion Magic 8 or Paragon Disk Manager. They will allow you to convert your partition/s to a different cluster size without losing any data.
Right click on the partition in question - advanced - resize clusters.
But like I said you should really find out what STRIPE size you are using for your RAID array first, as if it isn't set to one which is going to suit your needs, then you'll need to re-build your array from scratch.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
What's wrong with them is that they should look more like this:
You will need to start from scratch. You'll have to rebuild your array from the get go. No getting around it. If you want better performance, then that's what you gonna have to do.
I am back from formatting my hd and here is what i got:
this is at 16/16, i am going to change the cluster to 32. Any more suggestions? edit// did my score increased? Also if you have two 120gb hd on a raid 0 what's the amount of space that it suppose to show?
Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited November 2003
Are you on a separate drive from the RAID array? HOw big is the test partition? I like to just use 5 gig or so to test. What board are you using and what chipset? Also go to "run > msinfo32.exe" then in the column on the left Expand "Hardware Resources" and click on IRQ's. Then look for your controller and note what IRQ it is using then see if anything else has the same IRQ and tell ust what it is along with the IRQ number.
If everything looks good with the IRQ's then we can move on to latency tweeking.
I am booting from the raid and the test partition is 10gb but it has the windows folder.
I have an ASUS a7n8x and the chipset is nforce 2
I haven't install all my driver's (like keyboard, mouse, monitor, video card, sound card and the lastest nforce drivers) will that make a difference?
Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited November 2003
Great! You are not sharing the IRQ with anything so you are good there. Since you have Windows on the array you need to be completely defragged prior to running another ATTO. Then I would suggest you look at this thread about PCI latency tweeking. I highly recomend defragging and running another ATTO before doing the latency tweeking. If you are usning the Windows defrag you should run it at least 3 times.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited November 2003
mtgoat, that's not entirely correct. Anything over 12 is a virtual IRQ, which windows assigns so it can use multiple devices with one actual IRQ.
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Flint
i hope this helps:
That may be just the problem. Idealy, you want to have exactly the same stripe/cluster size i.e 16K/16K, or least around abouts the same i.e 16K/32K etc etc.
You need to find out exactly what stripe size you are using on your RAID array, and if by chance, you are using say 16K (which is a pretty all round good setting), you then need to either reformat or convert you RAID arrays partition to a more suitable cluster size, e.g 16K. To convert you will need to get your hands on, either Partion Magic 8 or Paragon Disk Manager. They will allow you to convert your partition/s to a different cluster size without losing any data.
But like I said you should really find out what STRIPE size you are using for your RAID array first, as if it isn't set to one which is going to suit your needs, then you'll need to re-build your array from scratch.
Keep us posted on your progress bud.
Cheers
this is at 16/16, i am going to change the cluster to 32. Any more suggestions? edit// did my score increased?
If everything looks good with the IRQ's then we can move on to latency tweeking.
I am booting from the raid and the test partition is 10gb but it has the windows folder.
I have an ASUS a7n8x and the chipset is nforce 2
I haven't install all my driver's (like keyboard, mouse, monitor, video card, sound card and the lastest nforce drivers) will that make a difference?
Does the scores look right or do I have something set up wrong?