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    Special Dell RAID settings?/ ATTO thread.

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by Lozz, Jul 6, 2010.

  1. Lozz

    Lozz Top Overpriced Dell

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    Just noticed something rather interesting. In a previous thread I noticed that my WEI HDD was 6.1, and I took a ATTO snapshot .

    well, today I'm on a Fresh Win 7 install with the latest Intel RAID RST drivers for the PM55 (installed via F6 during windows install)

    and now I'm back down to a 5.9 in the WEI, however, the most interesting thing is the ATTO performance.

    Old orginal W7 install on the left(0% frag), New fresh RAID on the right(3% frag).

    Baiscly, max read is down a lot, but small read has taken a rocket ship through the solar system.

    The single ATTO is my 32mb 7200RPM WD 1TB HDD for reference.

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    using the old DELL RST drivers (which are the old 8.9 drivers) netted 5.9 results, so I didn't bother to ATTO on those drivers. Most know that 4K performance is what matters the most, and a 430% increase in 4K by simply doing a fresh install is a *huge* jump in performance for doing essentially nothing. So if you're on the Initial W7 install of windows, and have RAID 0 drives, I'd appreciate an ATTO snapshot to see if my poor results were repeateable.
     
    Lozz, Jul 6, 2010
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