- Jan 6, 2009
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Before I start I just want to say that I've done a TON of research on this and have tried everything that I can find, short of getting a different controller, to resolve the write speed issues that I am seeing.
Current Rig:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D
PSU: Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K @4.3GHz - Cooled /w Corsair H60
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 780 XLR8 OC
Primary HDDs: 2x - Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB - Intel HardRAID 0
Secondary HDDs: 4x - WD Caviar Green 2TB
--Setup w/ Adaptec 6405 RAID Controller w/ Flash Module - Configured w/ RAID 5
So I have an Adaptec 6405 (yes I know, now, that they're immature and I SHOULD have gotten a 5 series) w/ 4 WD Green 2TB drives in a RAID 5 and the ZMM. I know a RAID 5 automatically means a performance drop, but the numbers that I'm seeing are WAY worse than I would expect.
First off, here's the controller config:
Yes, 3 of the drives are 3 Gb/s and one is 6Gb/s, but that should not be causing any major problems. You can also see that individual write cache is off for all 4 disks and enabled for the Controller itself, which is one of the first things I had found regarding performance for this kind of a setup.
Here are some results from CrystalDisk:
500MB (should be instant as it has the 512MB flash, and w/ Windows it usually is, but this is showing really bad results)
1000MB
2000MB
4000MB
Occasionally, I'll see bad performance in general in Windows when navigating through the folders etc. where Explorer has to stop and think for a bit before loading the next folder and, when copying data, the green progress bar will usually pause for a moment before continuing to copy. This problem seems to be more apparent with data amounting to 5GB or more. Anything less than that seems to do exactly as you'd expect.
Sorry for the massive 'Wall'O'Text', but I thought the code section I used for the controller config would have automatically configured a scrollbar after X lines.
Any insight, short of insults, etc., is very welcomed at this point as I'm nearly tearing my hair out. If you need any additional info let me know and I'll provide it as quickly as I can.
TIA
--
Chris
Current Rig:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
Case: Corsair Obsidian Series 800D
PSU: Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-Z97X-UD5H
CPU: Intel Core i7-4770K @4.3GHz - Cooled /w Corsair H60
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB
Video Card: PNY GeForce GTX 780 XLR8 OC
Primary HDDs: 2x - Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB - Intel HardRAID 0
Secondary HDDs: 4x - WD Caviar Green 2TB
--Setup w/ Adaptec 6405 RAID Controller w/ Flash Module - Configured w/ RAID 5
So I have an Adaptec 6405 (yes I know, now, that they're immature and I SHOULD have gotten a 5 series) w/ 4 WD Green 2TB drives in a RAID 5 and the ZMM. I know a RAID 5 automatically means a performance drop, but the numbers that I'm seeing are WAY worse than I would expect.
First off, here's the controller config:
PHP:
Controllers found: 1
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Controller information
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Controller Status : Optimal
Channel description : SAS/SATA
Controller Model : Adaptec 6405
Controller Serial Number : REMOVED
Controller World Wide Name : 50000D11073EEC00
Controller Alarm : Enabled
Physical Slot : 17
Temperature : 30 C/ 86 F (Normal)
Installed memory : 512 MB
Global task priority : High
Performance Mode : Default/Dynamic
Host bus type : PCIe
Host bus speed : 5000 MHz
Host bus link width : 8 bit(s)/link(s)
Stayawake period : Disabled
Spinup limit internal drives : 0
Spinup limit external drives : 0
Defunct disk drive count : 0
Logical devices/Failed/Degraded : 1/0/0
NCQ status : Enabled
Statistics data collection mode : Enabled
--------------------------------------------------------
RAID Properties
--------------------------------------------------------
Copyback : Disabled
Background consistency check : Enabled
Background consistency check period : 30
Automatic Failover : Enabled
--------------------------------------------------------
Controller Version Information
--------------------------------------------------------
BIOS : 5.2-0 (19147)
Firmware : 5.2-0 (19147)
Driver : 7.4-0 (30850)
Boot Flash : 5.2-0 (19147)
--------------------------------------------------------
Controller ZMM Information
--------------------------------------------------------
Status : ZMM Optimal
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Logical device information
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Logical device number 0
Logical device name : Storage
Block Size of member drives : 512 Bytes
RAID level : 5
Unique Identifier : CB6A85A9
Status of logical device : Optimal
Size : 5713910 MB
Parity space : 1904640 MB
Stripe-unit size : 64 KB
Read-cache setting : Enabled
Read-cache status : On
Write-cache setting : On when protected by battery/ZMM
Write-cache status : On
Partitioned : Yes
Protected by Hot-Spare : No
Bootable : Yes
Failed stripes : No
Power settings : Disabled
--------------------------------------------------------
Logical device segment information
--------------------------------------------------------
Segment 0 : Present (Controller:1,Connector:0,Device:0) WD-WMAZA0782820
Segment 1 : Present (Controller:1,Connector:0,Device:1) WD-WMC4M1979095
Segment 2 : Present (Controller:1,Connector:0,Device:2) WD-WCAZA0188878
Segment 3 : Present (Controller:1,Connector:0,Device:3) WD-WCAZA0121036
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Physical Device information
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Device #0
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
Block Size : 512 Bytes
Supported : Yes
Transfer Speed : SATA 3.0 Gb/s
Reported Channel,Device(T:L) : 0,0(0:0)
Reported Location : Connector 0, Device 0
Vendor : WDC
Model : WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Firmware : 51.0AB51
Serial number : WD-WMAZA0782820
World-wide name : 50014EE655C19889
Reserved Size : 3163160 KB
Used Size : 1904640 MB
Unused Size : 64 KB
Total Size : 1907729 MB
Write Cache : Disabled (write-through)
FRU : None
S.M.A.R.T. : No
S.M.A.R.T. warnings : 0
Power State : Full rpm
Supported Power States : Full rpm,Powered off
SSD : No
NCQ status : Enabled
Device #1
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
Block Size : 512 Bytes
Supported : Yes
Transfer Speed : SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Reported Channel,Device(T:L) : 0,1(1:0)
Reported Location : Connector 0, Device 1
Vendor : WDC
Model : WD20EZRX-00D8PB0
Firmware : 80.00A80
Serial number : WD-WMC4M1979095
World-wide name : 50014EE60409CA5C
Reserved Size : 3163160 KB
Used Size : 1904640 MB
Unused Size : 64 KB
Total Size : 1907729 MB
Write Cache : Disabled (write-through)
FRU : None
S.M.A.R.T. : No
S.M.A.R.T. warnings : 0
Power State : Full rpm
Supported Power States : Full rpm,Powered off
SSD : No
NCQ status : Enabled
Device #2
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
Block Size : 512 Bytes
Supported : Yes
Transfer Speed : SATA 3.0 Gb/s
Reported Channel,Device(T:L) : 0,2(2:0)
Reported Location : Connector 0, Device 2
Vendor : WDC
Model : WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Firmware : 50.0AB50
Serial number : WD-WCAZA0188878
World-wide name : 50014EE204B32A85
Reserved Size : 3163160 KB
Used Size : 1904640 MB
Unused Size : 64 KB
Total Size : 1907729 MB
Write Cache : Disabled (write-through)
FRU : None
S.M.A.R.T. : No
S.M.A.R.T. warnings : 0
Power State : Full rpm
Supported Power States : Full rpm,Powered off
SSD : No
NCQ status : Enabled
Device #3
Device is a Hard drive
State : Online
Block Size : 512 Bytes
Supported : Yes
Transfer Speed : SATA 3.0 Gb/s
Reported Channel,Device(T:L) : 0,3(3:0)
Reported Location : Connector 0, Device 3
Vendor : WDC
Model : WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Firmware : 50.0AB50
Serial number : WD-WCAZA0121036
World-wide name : 50014EE25A085216
Reserved Size : 3163160 KB
Used Size : 1904640 MB
Unused Size : 64 KB
Total Size : 1907729 MB
Write Cache : Disabled (write-through)
FRU : None
S.M.A.R.T. : No
S.M.A.R.T. warnings : 0
Power State : Full rpm
Supported Power States : Full rpm,Powered off
SSD : No
NCQ status : Enabled
Command completed successfully.Yes, 3 of the drives are 3 Gb/s and one is 6Gb/s, but that should not be causing any major problems. You can also see that individual write cache is off for all 4 disks and enabled for the Controller itself, which is one of the first things I had found regarding performance for this kind of a setup.
Here are some results from CrystalDisk:
500MB (should be instant as it has the 512MB flash, and w/ Windows it usually is, but this is showing really bad results)
1000MB
2000MB
4000MB
Occasionally, I'll see bad performance in general in Windows when navigating through the folders etc. where Explorer has to stop and think for a bit before loading the next folder and, when copying data, the green progress bar will usually pause for a moment before continuing to copy. This problem seems to be more apparent with data amounting to 5GB or more. Anything less than that seems to do exactly as you'd expect.
Sorry for the massive 'Wall'O'Text', but I thought the code section I used for the controller config would have automatically configured a scrollbar after X lines.
Any insight, short of insults, etc., is very welcomed at this point as I'm nearly tearing my hair out. If you need any additional info let me know and I'll provide it as quickly as I can.
TIA
--
Chris
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