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Bob The Great · 01-10-2003, 11:45 PM

I have a RAID0 with 2x40GB maxtor 7200RPM ATA/133 drives... With XP it is almost as slow as a standered drive. On my other PC I have 1 IBM deskstar 40GB 7200RPM ATA/100 and it gets higher scores (I should have made a raid with two of those drives). I think the problem is NTFS uses a bad cluster size by defualt (at least with XP). It kills drive speeds on every PC. You can partly fix this by formating your RAID while in XP and specifiying the cluster size to a larger size. Your best bet would be to set all 3 into a stripping raid and then use a seperate partition util so you can make an NTFS partiotion across your raid with a good cluster size. That should help aliviate your problem.

Good luck!

01-10-2003, 11:45 PM	#10 (permalink)
Bob The Great Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: perpetual delerium Posts: 4,463	I have a RAID0 with 2x40GB maxtor 7200RPM ATA/133 drives... With XP it is almost as slow as a standered drive. On my other PC I have 1 IBM deskstar 40GB 7200RPM ATA/100 and it gets higher scores (I should have made a raid with two of those drives). I think the problem is NTFS uses a bad cluster size by defualt (at least with XP). It kills drive speeds on every PC. You can partly fix this by formating your RAID while in XP and specifiying the cluster size to a larger size. Your best bet would be to set all 3 into a stripping raid and then use a seperate partition util so you can make an NTFS partiotion across your raid with a good cluster size. That should help aliviate your problem. Good luck! __________________ stuff