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    128GB Falcons in RAID0 performance issues

    Got 2 128GB Falcons in RAID0. I thought I would be getting better performance. In games I get alot of stuttering. My question is what could I do (Other than the tweaks listed on the forums) to get more speed. What should I do? Take one out? Smaller block size? Any suggestions?

    i7 950
    12GB DDR3 1666
    EVGA x58 Classified
    128Gb Falcon RAID0
    1TB Barracuda HDD
    3x MSI GTX285 Tri-SLI
    Desktop PC
    eVGA x58 SLI Classified
    i7 950
    12GB Corsair DDR3 1666
    2 G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD RAID0
    1TB Seagate Barracuda
    3 MSI N285GTX OC Superpipe in TRI-SLI
    LG Blu-Ray Burner

    Notebook
    Sager NP9280
    i7 965
    6GB Mushkin DDR3 1333
    2 Corsair Extreme 128GB SSD RAID0
    500GB Velociraptor
    nVidia GTX 280M
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  • #2
    What stripe size did you use. It seems 128 is the most popular. Mine are set at 128 and run perfectly. What firmware, is it the latest?

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    • #3
      RAID0
      Status: Normal
      System Volume: Yes
      Volume Write-Back Cache Enabled: Yes
      RAID Level: RAID 0 (striping)
      Strip Size: 64 KB
      Size: 238.4 GB
      Physical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
      Logical Sector Size: 512 Bytes
      Number of Hard Drives: 2
      Hard Drive Member 1: G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD
      Hard Drive Member 2: G.SKILL FALCON 128GB SSD
      Parent Array: Array_0000
      Desktop PC
      eVGA x58 SLI Classified
      i7 950
      12GB Corsair DDR3 1666
      2 G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD RAID0
      1TB Seagate Barracuda
      3 MSI N285GTX OC Superpipe in TRI-SLI
      LG Blu-Ray Burner

      Notebook
      Sager NP9280
      i7 965
      6GB Mushkin DDR3 1333
      2 Corsair Extreme 128GB SSD RAID0
      500GB Velociraptor
      nVidia GTX 280M

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      • #4
        I wasnt quite sure what size was best. I saw the from a Gskill Admin.

        Good for both XP and Vista, but mostly for XP

        1st, Please format your SSD with 4k or 8k block size. Smaller block size can increase the performance of the SSD
        Desktop PC
        eVGA x58 SLI Classified
        i7 950
        12GB Corsair DDR3 1666
        2 G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD RAID0
        1TB Seagate Barracuda
        3 MSI N285GTX OC Superpipe in TRI-SLI
        LG Blu-Ray Burner

        Notebook
        Sager NP9280
        i7 965
        6GB Mushkin DDR3 1333
        2 Corsair Extreme 128GB SSD RAID0
        500GB Velociraptor
        nVidia GTX 280M

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Holton0289 View Post
          1st, Please format your SSD with 4k or 8k block size. Smaller block size can increase the performance of the SSD
          How is this accomplished? I admit that I wanted to do this, but I forgot all about it.

          Oh, and is there a way to find out how my SSD is currently formatted?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by TwoCables View Post
            Oh, and is there a way to find out how my SSD is currently formatted?
            If you formated it with NTFS, run NTFSInfo from a command prompt:
            Code:
            NTFSInfo.exe C:
            where C: is your SSD, and look at the "Bytes per Cluster" number.
            Code:
            NTFS Information Dump V1.01
Copyright (C) 1997 Mark Russinovich
http://www.sysinternals.com

Volume Size
-----------
Volume size            : 18551 MB
Total sectors          : 37993661
Total clusters         : 4749207
Free clusters          : 1360158
Free space             : 5313 MB (28% of drive)

Allocation Size
----------------
Bytes per sector       : 512
Bytes per cluster      : 4096
Bytes per MFT record   : 1024
Clusters per MFT record: 0

MFT Information
---------------
MFT size               : 55 MB (0% of drive)
MFT start cluster      : 2
MFT zone clusters      : 2765248 - 2807296
MFT zone size          : 164 MB (0% of drive)
MFT mirror start       : 1296301

Meta-Data files
---------------
            Usually, it is 4096 (4k).

            (note: the data shown here is for a rotational disk, not an SSD)

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Remi View Post
              If you formated it with NTFS, run NTFSInfo from a command prompt:
              Code:
              NTFSInfo.exe C:
              where C: is your SSD, and look at the "Bytes per Cluster" number.
              Code:
              NTFS Information Dump V1.01
Copyright (C) 1997 Mark Russinovich
http://www.sysinternals.com

Volume Size
-----------
Volume size            : 18551 MB
Total sectors          : 37993661
Total clusters         : 4749207
Free clusters          : 1360158
Free space             : 5313 MB (28% of drive)

Allocation Size
----------------
Bytes per sector       : 512
Bytes per cluster      : 4096
Bytes per MFT record   : 1024
Clusters per MFT record: 0

MFT Information
---------------
MFT size               : 55 MB (0% of drive)
MFT start cluster      : 2
MFT zone clusters      : 2765248 - 2807296
MFT zone size          : 164 MB (0% of drive)
MFT mirror start       : 1296301

Meta-Data files
---------------
              Usually, it is 4096 (4k).

              (note: the data shown here is for a rotational disk, not an SSD)
              Thank you, Remi! It turns out that it's 4k. Nice.

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              • #8
                So what, if any, tweaks work for a SS RAID drive. From what I hear, Wiper does not work for a RAID setup, and the tweaks oh here dont mention tweaks for for RAID.
                Desktop PC
                eVGA x58 SLI Classified
                i7 950
                12GB Corsair DDR3 1666
                2 G.Skill Falcon 128GB SSD RAID0
                1TB Seagate Barracuda
                3 MSI N285GTX OC Superpipe in TRI-SLI
                LG Blu-Ray Burner

                Notebook
                Sager NP9280
                i7 965
                6GB Mushkin DDR3 1333
                2 Corsair Extreme 128GB SSD RAID0
                500GB Velociraptor
                nVidia GTX 280M

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                • #9
                  and that's nothing check this post from supertalent's forum about the new firmware 1819:

                  There is a lot of talk how your drive controllers drivers have to be able to pass the TRIM command. I believe if you have for example and Intel drive controller and you installed a driver for it instead of the Microsoft default driver in Windows 7 the Trim command will not work yet. For sure no Raid drivers for any driver controllers support TRIM yet. Supposedly Intel's TRIM supporting drive controller drivers for both RAID and non-raid are months away. Way to drop the ball Intel. Supposedly if you reformat a SSD with the 1819 firmware it will TRIM the drive.

                  Assuming for whatever reason TRIM is having problems and your drive has been written to alot then garbage collection should fix it but you need to make sure your computer is only in S1 power saving support and leave your computer on overnight so the garbage collection can mark all the deleted space as deleted and refresh it. If your computer goes to sleep mode garbage mode doesn't kick in. Garbage collection runs slowly in the background with the v1819 firmware with garbage collection enabled when the drive is not being used.

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                  after reading many other posts, I'll just skip this damn flimsy firmware.. no raid here anyway..

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