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    Anyone know the limits of the raid controllers speed?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by arstron, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. arstron

    arstron Notebook Guru

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    I have had my 60gig OCZ Vertex SSD for 7 months now, I just got a 30 gig vertex for one of my work computers yesterday and ordered another 60 gig vertex this morning. Since I will be wiping my system out tomorrow or friday for a full windows 7 install, I was thinking about trying both 60 gig vertex's in a raid configuration. Has anyone tried this yet? If there is a limit, then one of the 60 gig vertex will simply go into one of my other design pc, if there is no noticable limit, well it will be hard to give it up.... ;)
     
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    There is a limit of 3Gbps for each of your SATA2 connections (you have 2 in the so the max theoritical speed is 6Gbps).

    You will get the full speed for RAID if you use the 60GB vertex's though so no worries.
     
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    That is good to know, I know quiet a few mfg. share the 3gpbs limit with multiple sata connections, I figured they would do that on laptops as well.
     
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    Nope assuming you have one of the FX models (as i dont know what system you have) then you have 2 seperate SATA lines for Hard drives
     
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    From what I have read online, the Intel RAID solutions are limited to a total bandwidth of around 600MB/s regardless of how many drives are in the RAID array. Not a problem for a laptop that only supports one or two drives, but the 600MB/s does bottleneck desktop computers that allow you to RAID together 5 or 6 drives.
     
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    It looks like gateway is sharing the bandwidth for both sata connectors. I am limited to only 300 Mb/s on my laptop, but was able to get 420 Mb/s on a desktop (ich10 SB). To bad, but I guess I really didnt "need" it anyway.
     
    arstron, Oct 23, 2009
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    Does your laptop have ICH10?

    All I can conclude about your system is it's manufactured by Gateway.
     
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    I am sorry, I could have swore I made a follow up post stating that I have a 6860FX, which I read has the ich7 SB, however windows 7 is using the ich8m-E/ich9m-e driver.
     
    arstron, Oct 23, 2009
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