[SOLVED] How can this M.2 be this fast?

[MonsterMaxx]

This is my latest CAD station, it has 2x M.2 970 Pros 1TB in a stripe (Raid0). It's fast, I can tell it's fast, but today I put some benchies on it and find their results and it's hard to believe.

HD Tune on my 9900k CAD station w/ 2x M.2 970 Pros 1TB in a stripe (Raid0)

For reference, I pulled HD Tune benchies on my Server 2012R2 Xeon 2620 w/ 64GB of Ram.
This is a 1.5TB Raid10 made up of 6x 512 SSDs.

It's my fastest server drive, yet does poorly on this test. It's fast, I can feel it.



This is a 12TB Raid5 made up of 4x 4TB spinning platters SAS 7200rpm

This capture looks about like what I'd expect. This raid is also fast, but not as fast as the above.




This is a pair of 73GB spinning platters 10k SAS in a Mirror (Raid1)

Lastly we have another workstation that's got a ROG RAIDR 240GB PCI drive.

It was fast in it's day, like back in 2012



So I'm left wondering, if my new striped M.2 is really that much faster and if it is, why aren't manufacturers offering to load them this way?


I've got a single M.2 HyperX Predator that with a little horseplay I could get in another machine if y'all think this is a worthy expedition. Or is this benchmark just BS these days with modern m.2 drives?

 

[USAFRet]

NVMe = RAID 0 shows HUGE sequential benchmark numbers.

Actual user facing performance, not so much.
It has been this way since solid state drives were a thing. SATA III or NVMe.


If you were routinely moving large blocks of sequential data between 2 RAID 0 arrays...then yes. You'd see a BIG difference.
But like all the rest of us, that is not what you and the OS are doing.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-raid-benchmark,3485.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-950-pro-256gb-raid-report,4449.html

 

[MonsterMaxx]

Here's one from the HyperX Predator, a single 512GB M.2 on a riser card.

 

[MonsterMaxx]

The good news is that I'm doing CAD and FEA and Video on this machine which the article said would benefit from the stripe.

It seems really fast to me.

 

[USAFRet]

The good news is that I'm doing CAD and FEA and Video on this machine which the article said would benefit from the stripe.

It seems really fast to me.

For your specific use? yeah, maybe.

For the VAST majority? No.

Like 2 models of the same car. Model A and Model B.
Model A has a published top speed of 135mph, Model B has a top speed of 170mph.

If all your seeing is the ad text, obviously Model B is the better choice.
Not so much.

0-60 times are with 0.2 sec, and Model A is more reliable.

For your RAID 0, is this the OS drive? It should not be. RAID 0 was never ever meant for the system drive.
And I sincerely hope you have a strong backup routine.