Double the space & Triple the happiness

buBleZ · 06-27-2009

Hey guys just expanded my storage with 2x 500GB SG 7200.12 drives. The drives rock in RAID. Ordered both from ebay. some pics.

The seller sent a DVD with some eng/hindi movies and video songs + some HD documentaries. Nice gesture

And why "Triple the happiness?" I used the ebay gifts offer and chose a bluetooth headset. To my extreme surprise the headset came a day before the harddrive itself .. EBAY ROCKS

And how I setup the RAID in BIOS. THanks to Intel matrix RAID i was able to set both RAID0 and RAID1 with just 2 drives. OS and games in RAID 0. Some general stuff in RAID1

Here are some benchies. The avg read speeds are awesome. The random access times are good because my RAID0 takes only 30% of space in the fastest area of the drives.

For some reason write is not as good as read :S

Backed up the disk images of RAID0 OS partitions to RAID1 partitions. These 2 drives brought my storage to 3TB

Feedbacks/suggestions welcome

Aragorn · 06-27-2009

congratz mate ... awesome stuff ..

kauffmann · 06-27-2009

Awesome man, congrats, what damages?

buBleZ · 06-27-2009

Originally Posted by kauffmann

Awesome man, congrats, what damages?

in the first pic

ɱɑɖɖʏ · 06-27-2009

Congrats

ManISinJpr · 06-27-2009

Amazing speed there, mate.
I am blown away.
a little OT. Hey FR when you come here is there something like this Intel ICH10 raid matrix on AMD platform or not?
and what about the image creation and restoration? how will that work on a raid 0?
lots of questions and answers...

ManISinJpr · 06-27-2009

LOLz Kauffie, he has posted a bill image which says Rs5870 + 100 for shipping
I can tell that you are so happy seeing this that you forgot about it.

Originally Posted by kauffmann

Awesome man, congrats, what damages?

wingzero · 06-27-2009

Nice performance. Njoy the space.
Congoz

d@rK nEmEsIs · 06-27-2009

congrats dude.

ViKiD · 06-27-2009

250 + mbps

stonedsurd · 06-29-2009

Write is always slower than read.

Congrats!

rpm19050 · 06-29-2009

cool! congoz!!

buBleZ · 06-29-2009

Originally Posted by stonedsurd

Write is always slower than read.

Congrats!

Originally Posted by rpm19050

cool! congoz!!

thanks guys..

@stoned: Yeah thats true. Do you know why read speeds in RAID1 are equal to just a single drive? I mean data is duplicated and only half of the data should be read from each drive.
I understand that write speeds in RAID1 will be like a single drive as complete data needs to be written to both drives

initpidzero · 06-29-2009

write has to be slower offcourse.
anyway congrats man.

buBleZ · 06-29-2009

Originally Posted by initpidzero

write has to be slower offcourse.
anyway congrats man.

thanks
By slow I meant it isn't up to my expectations. When read was over 250+MBps I expected write avg to be 200MBps+

06-27-2009	#2
Aragorn teh spamm[E]R! Rig Gallery Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 15,794 iTrader: (8)	Re: Double the space & Triple the happiness congratz mate ... awesome stuff .. __________________

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kauffmann teh zeuS! Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: New Delhi Posts: 3,775 iTrader: (3)	Re: Double the space & Triple the happiness Awesome man, congrats, what damages? __________________ PC: AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ @ 2.7Ghz - Cooled by OCZ Vendetta 2 - ECS 8200A Motherboard - 3GB DDR2 RAM - XFX Nvidia Gefore 9800GT - 1TB HDD (WD Caviar Blue 640GB + Seagate 500GB) - DVD-RW - Packed in CoolerMaster Elite 335 chassis. Laptop (Dell Studio 15):Intel Core2Duo T8100 - 3GB DDR2 RAM - ATi 4250 HD - 320GB HDD - DVD-RW and the works. Gadgets: iPhone 3G 8GB - Samsung Blackjack II (Up for sale) - Dell Axim x51v PDA (Up for sale) - Philips VOIP 841 Skype Handset - Logitech Cordless Skype Handset (Up for sale) - Panasonic Lumix TZ7 Camera. Zen Breakfast.

06-27-2009	#6
ManISinJpr Jason Bourne Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Look back, Look in the fr Posts: 14,755 iTrader: (8)	Re: Double the space & Triple the happiness Amazing speed there, mate. I am blown away. a little OT. Hey FR when you come here is there something like this Intel ICH10 raid matrix on AMD platform or not? and what about the image creation and restoration? how will that work on a raid 0? lots of questions and answers... __________________ "I say NO! to Alcohol, it just didn't listen". but I am brewing some sense in it now. glad to inform you that it's now only 3 days in a week

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wingzero UtOpiAn EniGmA Rig Gallery Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Bangalore Posts: 3,959 iTrader: (4)	Re: Double the space & Triple the happiness Nice performance. Njoy the space. Congoz __________________ My artwork Rig1: i7 920 + noctua u12p-SE2 \| ex58-ud5 \| pi.blk 6gb \| gtx 260 sonic \| Dell e198WFP \| 500gb x 2 \| msie 3.0 \| pleomax \| cm690 II Advanced \| vx450 \| Audigy 2 ZS + mx5021 Rig2: e2140 \| GA g31-s2l \| 2gb transcend \| WD 160GB \| samtron 55v \| logitech mkbd+mx310 \| Modded Bijli phone : Galaxy i7500 Audio : Sansa clip+(rockboxd) + ne-6 / Sony a728 + pl30/pl11/ep630 Guides n reviews : DIY 100" LCD projector Sony Walkman A726 review G.skill pi.black ddr2 800 review X-men : Origins Wolverine game review Zebronics Bijli Dragon Mod

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06-29-2009	#11
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