After Mobo & CPU upgrade & switch to raid 0 disk performance is twice as bad!

[Ptron]

O.k. what the hell am I doing wrong here. I just upgraded my athlon Tbird 1.4g cpu and Iwill mobo to a 2.4g P4 and ASUS P4P800 Deluxe. I wiped my 2 Western Digital 40G hard drives and installed them Raid 0. I split the raid array into a 20 gig logical drive and a 60 gig one. I installed windows XP, Sonar 2.2xl and a few other apps on the 20g one and put some of my recordings on the big one. I set up all but a couple of the tweaks acording to these suggestions http://www.musicxp.net/ as I had before. I set up Sonar and my Aardvark q10 drivers according to Aardvark's suggestions. Basically, I had everything like it was before. Everything seemed to run fine until I tried to play back one of the projects. There was a minor improvement in processor usage according to Sonar's meters but disk usage was almost exactly twice as bad. On the particular projects I tried it was about 13% before and 26% now. The playback is terrible. There is a pulsing crackle and fizz that sounds like digital distortion but it's not. What's going on

Ptron

 

[TimOBrien]

There is an article in this month's Sound-On-Sound magazine from a guy who benchmarked RAID systems..... he determined that RAIDs were not always beneficial and you might be better off using non=RAIDed fast IDE drives set up properly instead.....

You might want to take a look at the article if it would keep you from grief.

 

[bgavin]

The RAID implementations on most IDE motherboards leave a whole lot to be desired. The AMD forums are chock full of bugs and issues with RAID boards.

IMO, the only RAID to consider are the high end products (SCSI) such as Compaq or Adaptec. The performance varies by the RAID level. Some configurations favor faster Reads, others favor faster Writes.

I refuse to use (IDE) RAID boards in my client machines, due to performance issues, lack of stability/drivers, and the amount of fussing required to get them working.

 

[Stealthtech]

Re: After Mobo & CPU upgrade & switch to raid 0 disk performance is twice as bad!

O.k. what the hell am I doing wrong here. I just upgraded my athlon Tbird 1.4g cpu and Iwill mobo to a 2.4g P4 and ASUS P4P800 Deluxe. I wiped my 2 Western Digital 40G hard drives and installed them Raid 0. I split the raid array into a 20 gig logical drive and a 60 gig one. I installed windows XP, Sonar 2.2xl and a few other apps on the 20g one and put some of my recordings on the big one. I set up all but a couple of the tweaks acording to these suggestions http://www.musicxp.net/ as I had before. I set up Sonar and my Aardvark q10 drivers according to Aardvark's suggestions. Basically, I had everything like it was before. Everything seemed to run fine until I tried to play back one of the projects. There was a minor improvement in processor usage according to Sonar's meters but disk usage was almost exactly twice as bad. On the particular projects I tried it was about 13% before and 26% now. The playback is terrible. There is a pulsing crackle and fizz that sounds like digital distortion but it's not. What's going on

Ptron

I too am now using the ASUS P4P800, and I too removed my IDE drives and installed the new WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drive. Im also using the P4 2.4 (800MHz FSB-CPU) Dont need the RAID....Have no desire for RAID....my system is rock solid...mind you I have no other software other than recording software. Most devices are disabled other than my Lynx Card. I finally broke away from using 1 PC for everything and built a new box dedicated for recording.

 

[Ptron]

Well, I reluctantly abandoned the whole RAID thing and she runs like a champ now. It should be fast enough to get me by until I dive into SATA somewhere down the road. I wonder where the fault was. I'm curious, my board's chipsets are Pentium but the RAID chip/driver is VIA, has anyone heard of problems with the VIA RAID chip/drivers? People sure b!tch about their chipsets alot.

Ptron