[SOLVED] Raid0 performance issue.

[mattAMD]

Hey guys, so I have 3970x and Zenith II Extreme with 5 NVME drives. One is ADATA and 4 OCW. I have always just used Storage Pool in Windows but that some people got results twice as high I decided to go the RaidXpertII route. I have set it up after some hurdles, 2 arrays. 1 non-raid (adata) for system and 4 other drives for raid0. Formatted, created a drive and my performance has been halved from the Storage Pool one. ONLY response I've found was that the AMD drivers are basically trash. But then again this guy has done it, and it seems to be working https://hardforum.com/threads/build-3970x-dual-2080ti-8tb-m-2-raid-render-monster.1990145/

Any idea how to speed it up? or if it can be done?

 

[RealBeast]

RAID is a waste of time with NVMe drives, as it will not do anything noticeable in the real world. Sure it may show better sequential large file transfer rates in benchmarks but it won't improve the random performance which is the more important, as the sequential transfer rates are already high enough that you won't notice any marginal change.

Software based RAID is slow, and motherboard controller based RAID is unreliable.

And I have nothing against RAID in general (it has its limited uses) -- I have two large RAID 6 arrays using Adaptec 8805 controllers and 8 14TB SAS enterprise drives for video storage.

 

[mdd1963]

Storage Pool = WIndows RAID , i.e, pretty much = RAID in name function only as far as any potential speed benefits.