Precision M6400 Owner's Lounge

Vista 64 RAID 0 (see sig below): Can one use the Rapid Recovery Volume feature of Intel Matrix Storage Manager to auto-sync (mirror) internal RAID 0 drives with an external eSATA drive?

 

Wow, that vertex looks nice. I may swap my 80gb intel x-25m. It's a shame, I just bought if for around $500 just two months ago!

My overall large reads are almost as good @ 259Mb/s but my writes are way down, as are my small file reads. I would love to have more freedom to load apps that need to be fast but have some writing going on to the SSD.

Do you have any stuttering issues? Thanks

 

On your benchmark there seems to be a big gap between the write and read.
The write seems too low.
Is that normal? From what I've seen on benchmarks they should be close.
Is your partition aligned properly? (stripe size and offset)
I've seen this cases where the stripe size and offset were not set properly.
What operating system?

 

Actually that's about right for the X-25m, writes top out at 80MB/s. There is no alignment ability that works with intel's internal architecture at this time I believe.

 

Wow... that's a big gap.
I've been reading the OCZ forums and they talk about different alignments, etc.
I'm looking at investing in 2x120 Vertexes once my M6400 arrives. (should be here in a few days)

 

I have no stuttering issues with the Vertex, but I also, right off the bat, did all the tweaks and aligned it. I've been pretty happy, I'm putting Win7 on it as we speak to see how it does.

 

I'm sorry.. I can't remember. What are the tweaks an how you aligned it?
What stripe/offset?

 

I aligned it using diskpar to 128 (all my benches seemed better with that). I just plugged it into another Vista machine and aligned it through the cmd prompt. I did all the tweaks on the OCZ forum, moved my Outlook and Firefox profile to my D: HDD, disabled the page file, typical registry tweaks, disabled searching/indexing, prefetch, superfetch, and readyboost.

 

Thanks.
I'm trying to figure all this stuff out until mine arrives.
I'll be setting it up as Raid 0 so I don't know what to do with the outlook and other caching and profile stuff.
I believe that there is diskpar and diskpart. Is this the one that you can use from the vista install disk?

 

If you're doing RAID0, I would just leave your Outlook and profile stuff alone. You could do a RAMdisk, but it's not worth it. The Vertexes controller is advanced enough that you shouldn't have stuttering with one Vertex, let alone two.