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What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:57 am
by AmIdYfReAk
its like its trying to spell somthing out :/
No wonder i'm not impressed with the speed.
any thaughts on this?
Asus P5N32-E SLI
2X 74 gig Rapters in raid 0.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:08 am
by obsidian
I think it says, "AmIdYfReAk is gAy!"
That does indeed look to be way off. Is it noticeably slow or just on par with your other drives?
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:41 am
by AmIdYfReAk
on par if not a little slower than the 250gig Maxtor SATA2 drive that they replaced..
when i get a little time tommorow, i'll test out the single 32gig rapter that is running in onr of my older nforce 2 mobo based puter..
i seriously think it will beat them out ( its actually faster in windows than this box... beleve it or not )
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:43 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
here is the single 36gig on a Nforce 2 IMPP
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 6:27 pm
by obsidian
Still slower than ATA? Sounds like a problem with the mobo. Tried updating firmware and chipset drivers?
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:05 pm
by creep
I hate to say it again, but, nforce chipsets are junk.
Btw, this is another case of amidy having all his expensive toys and my junk pc blowing them all away. 2nd time today and it's only 2pm!
edit- btw those are WD 7200rpm 40GB 8mb cache drives.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:37 pm
by shaft
WD Raptors, nforce 680i
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:39 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
Uhhh, Creep... if you didnt notice.. i think this has do to with my scores with crysis... moving on..
Shaft, what mobo do you have?
we are both sporting the 680I's, :/
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:52 pm
by shaft
striker
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:10 am
by creep
Yeah timedemo benchamrks in games depend heavily on your HDD performance.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:17 am
by AmIdYfReAk
lol, your ignorence is showing...
get out of TNT, kthx.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:18 am
by AmIdYfReAk
shaft wrote:striker
Hummm, are you running the Nvidia Software along side it? or did you Just config it in MediaMagic and call it a life?
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:25 am
by shaft
just the nforce driver package.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:28 am
by AmIdYfReAk
Hummm, i'm starting to think one of these raptors arnt working quite right..
Gonna do a bios flash ( there has been 9 newer ones since mine
)
then after that, i may just pop my SATA2 drive back in.. not sure yet.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:28 am
by creep
oh noez, my "ignorence". Out of tnt? LoL I'm trying to help you.
Plained wrote:LET ME EMBRACE YOU!
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:35 am
by AmIdYfReAk
ha... ha.. help?
by sayign that your "junk" beating out my pc?
helpfull.. thanks man.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:40 am
by creep
To be succinct, some nForce 680i motherboards have SATA issues. Data seems to get corrupted for no reason causing BSODs and corrupted hard drive errors. Obviously there is a reason, but the problem to the end user may seem very sporadic.
NVIDIA’s track record at HardOCP with storage controller solutions over the life of the nForce brand has been poor to say the least, but has been getting better as NVIDIA has moved forward.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art ... RodXNpYXN0
Also some good information here, stating that the problems may indeed be resolved by new BIOS.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art ... RodXNpYXN0
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:41 am
by creep
This is more helpful?
(the help was in the first post where I told you nforce chispets are junk :P)
edit- and just for the record, I was already looking for this info for you before I saw your last post. =)
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:48 am
by AmIdYfReAk
you've got a fucked up way of helping people :/
Anyway, yea, i've heard the same, and i've read the same.. that is whats getting me to flash the bios..
i will report back after the flash
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:50 am
by creep
I must first establish my supremacy, then I can dole out the assistance to the little people.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:47 am
by AmIdYfReAk
Bios flash did NOTHING!!!
except remove all of my O/c settings and jazz...
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:53 am
by creep
Sorry, my post above should have had 2 different links. The 2nd one should have been
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h ... VzaWFzdA==
Some people have been installing the new BIOS without any immediate issues being solved, but I think the issue might lay at the feet of the end user. The ugly part of this easy BIOS update is the fact if you already corrupted data on your hard drive, this BIOS update is not going to fix that. So you will of course need to install a fresh operating system as well as reinstall all of your applications.
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:47 am
by AmIdYfReAk
welp, i wont be installing them for a little, i've just finished formatting back to the sata2 drive... pulling 275mbs now
so we will see how it go's After i format again
Re: What the? ( WD Rapter Raid 0 )
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:06 am
by AmIdYfReAk
one thing that i did notice and they didnt mention in there was after the Flash, it re-dected the PCI to PCI bridges...
it was rather interesting.