Re: Intel RST 9.6 Raid 5 - Data initializing taking forever??

webadmin@intel.com — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 07:58:26 GMT

Thanks Peter.

In total it took 35 hours without write back cache.

Just for anyone interested, I tested the raid array (32kb stripe) after the initialization using ATTO disk benchmark 2.34 in windows 7 x64 (64kb NTFS cluster)

With write back cache ON: write speed was consistently around 70MB/s and read was between 150 - 210MB/s

Turn write back cache OFF: Write speed peaked at 90MB/s for 64KB files, and lowered to 30MB/s for 8MB files (and only 900KB/s for 0.5 KB files) , while read speed was same as with write back cache ON (150-210).

So if you have a stable OS then turning write back cache ON seems to give a good overall speed boost.

Intel RST 9.6 Raid 5 - Data initializing taking forever??

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:13:22 GMT

Hi all,

After creating my Raid 5 (3 x 1TB) on the ICH10R SATA ports, in Win7 64bit the RST notification is showing 'Data: Initialising 1.4%', but the percentage is increasing very VERY slowly.

What is it doing?!?!

Regards,

Kelly

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