| . My Blog - williamwendland.com RAID 0 vs. Non RAID ICH10 vs. JMB363 i7 920 2.66GHZ vs. i7 920 3.4GHZ Full Review williamwendland.com I tested RAID 0 x2 against a Single drive on the EVGA X58 SLI (E758) Motherboard. Using the onboard RAID Controler, Stock i7 and overclocked. Doubled our Drive Size from 500GB to 1000GB RAID 0 Reads, & Writes 2 drives simultanously, this is called a Stripe. by utilizing 2 drives at once this is suspected to double the performance in some cases, However in other cases it will not double performance, but does show a substantial increase. Limitations are the hard drive itself, and the RAID controler An add in RAID controler may perform better then the onboard in most scenarios. In this review I am utizing the onboard SATA controlers of the EVGA X58 SLI - model E758, Which is the Intel ICH10 Southbridge, and the JMicron JMB363, both are onboard devices that are included on this motherboard. You must understand that RAID 0 while doubling the Hard Drive space also doubles the rate of failure However the failure of hard drives today is much lower then those of the past. Many people run RAID configurations for many years and never have a failure. It is good practice to always backup important information onto a storage drive. I also like to mirror (RAID 0+1) my storage drives for added protection to vital files (Thats another story). Here are the specs: - This Computer - EVGA X58 SLI E758 (With Latest BIOS) - Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHZ / 3.4GHZ ... |
