I think this may be a slightly better place to post this...
::EDIT::
I've been looking around since posting this and maybe these are actually decent scores?
I REALLY have no idea, any thoughts?
Setup:
SB 2500K
Asus P8P67 Deluxe
2 500G Spinpoint F3s
eVGA GTX 470 SC
CM 850 PSU
Ok, so just got all the parts in today and here is what I did:
Built it! (heeh)
Setup the 2 HDs via Sata 2 connectors
Went into the BIOS (LOVE the new BIOS) and set them RAID.
The other options there were IDE, RAID and ACHI.
After that I rebooted and hit CTRL+1 to setup the raid.
I set it to Raid 0, data size (striping?) to 128k and then created it.
Rebooted with Win 7 CD..
Now here is where I think I may have ran into trouble...
I know VERY little about Raid setups but from what I gathered you are supposed to load some drivers for your raid setup.
At this point I did not do that I simply selected the now 9xxGB drive (the two 500s, but listed as the single drive) drive and
installed Windows. After it installed, I installed all the mobo drivers and what not from the CD.
I installed, from cd, the Intel Rapid Storage items and ran it. It told me that my drives were in fact in raid and woot!
I then ran windows experience index and received either a 7.8 or 7.9 in everything BUT disk transfer rate, which was 5.9
I thought that was low so I downloaded and ran Crystal Disk Mark and here is the output after a 1000MB run
Read/Write:
SEQ: 267.5/279.9
512K: 41.51/82.38
4K: 0.470/2.540
4KQD32: 1.822/2.479
From what I have gathered, something is wrong and my HD's aren't running very fast (or is this normal?)
So, I redid the Win 7 64b installation and this time I chose to load drivers
Now, my MB CD came with a Raid drivers folder but the only one that it would accept was for IRST (intels)
The other ones that are on the cd are:
JMB362 and Marvell...
So I chose the Intel one and installed windows again.
Ran windows experience and crystal mark again, same results.
Is this normal? If not, what do you think I am doing wrong? Anything I didn't do, etc?
Thanks so much guys!!
::EDIT::
I've been looking around since posting this and maybe these are actually decent scores?
I REALLY have no idea, any thoughts?
Setup:
SB 2500K
Asus P8P67 Deluxe
2 500G Spinpoint F3s
eVGA GTX 470 SC
CM 850 PSU
Ok, so just got all the parts in today and here is what I did:
Built it! (heeh)
Setup the 2 HDs via Sata 2 connectors
Went into the BIOS (LOVE the new BIOS) and set them RAID.
The other options there were IDE, RAID and ACHI.
After that I rebooted and hit CTRL+1 to setup the raid.
I set it to Raid 0, data size (striping?) to 128k and then created it.
Rebooted with Win 7 CD..
Now here is where I think I may have ran into trouble...
I know VERY little about Raid setups but from what I gathered you are supposed to load some drivers for your raid setup.
At this point I did not do that I simply selected the now 9xxGB drive (the two 500s, but listed as the single drive) drive and
installed Windows. After it installed, I installed all the mobo drivers and what not from the CD.
I installed, from cd, the Intel Rapid Storage items and ran it. It told me that my drives were in fact in raid and woot!
I then ran windows experience index and received either a 7.8 or 7.9 in everything BUT disk transfer rate, which was 5.9
I thought that was low so I downloaded and ran Crystal Disk Mark and here is the output after a 1000MB run
Read/Write:
SEQ: 267.5/279.9
512K: 41.51/82.38
4K: 0.470/2.540
4KQD32: 1.822/2.479
From what I have gathered, something is wrong and my HD's aren't running very fast (or is this normal?)
So, I redid the Win 7 64b installation and this time I chose to load drivers
Now, my MB CD came with a Raid drivers folder but the only one that it would accept was for IRST (intels)
The other ones that are on the cd are:
JMB362 and Marvell...
So I chose the Intel one and installed windows again.
Ran windows experience and crystal mark again, same results.
Is this normal? If not, what do you think I am doing wrong? Anything I didn't do, etc?
Thanks so much guys!!