jojo69
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I have had nothing but trouble with RAID
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As in what way? Honestly my raid for the majority of its life span has been picture perfect for about 9 years or what ever.....its only been id say the last 12 months i get this "raid failed" during bios post which seems to happen intermitly....like 3 weeks its fine then all of a sudden its once a week....I just power off and reseat the drives sata ports (which may or may not be fixing the issue) and it boots up fine after that. I must have got 8 years with zero issues including windows install and build upgrades. Either my sata cables are all a sudden going out, or my board is developing some issues with the raid chipset....but I thought even the drives could be getting to old....but they were comercial grade and all checks show them in perfect condition ....I guess the smart choice would be to purchase a huge 4tb or bigger 7200 rpm drive and retire the outdated wedtern digital 2tb raid. (1 tb each).... wouldn't it be something if all a sudden my windows installs get back to smooth operation again lolI have had nothing but trouble with RAID
yea its raid 0.....but ive decided to go ahead and retire it. It's really only been used in a storage/ backup drive. I've only had one failure and it was a non raid external config.....which let's the drives get to hot. I'm pretty sure this raid has been going since even before my x58s was put into use so no complaints lolI don't know man, I have lost waaaay more data to corrupt RAID 1 volumes than I have to hardware failure. I don't even play with them any more. and it sounds like you are playing with RAID 0...that is just asking for trouble IMO
Yea me either. From what I read have been reading these Xeon's like odd numbered multipliers. So the X5675 has a 23x available. That is what made me easily hit the 4.6ghz. Now being stable is a whole other thing to even get. Really am shocked how stable it was. Now I do need to try some games, but I am waiting for prices to get a lil better. My Original 980ti died, and I am still waiting for a damn check from MSI....
Anyway looks like these old dog of a Chipset have some legs still!
I'm astonished so many of you are able to hit 200 on the front bus -- my i7 960 can barely run 25x155 at 1.28v. Any higher voltage and it gets a little twitchy. Shouldn't be cooling issues, I've got a H110i stuck to it.
Different IMC revision, and QPI throughput changes a lot in regards to what type of overclocking can be done.
I'm convinced its the motherboard -- it's always been a tad twitchy. It's still working -- but I don't think I'm dumping any money into it for better CPUs or whatnot.
Asus X58 Sabertooth
I have two sabertooths and both of them hit 200 easy on x5660s.
I'm astonished so many of you are able to hit 200 on the front bus -- my i7 960 can barely run 25x155 at 1.28v. Any higher voltage and it gets a little twitchy. Shouldn't be cooling issues, I've got a H110i stuck to it.
I have owned 4-5 X58 motherboards over the years, and I have never had one not hit 200 bclk on any I7 or Xeon. Now most of the motherboards were 2nd gen versions. Meaning they had the Sata 6.0 and USB 3.0 ports. Also to note all 5 were Asus motherboards.
SATA 3 and USB 3 are via add-on chip. The usual marvell implementations of SATA 3 leave something to be desired and often perform worse than SATA 2 Intel controllers. I had a NVMe drive on mine and at PCIe 2.0 speeds it still was pretty fast. Faster than both SATA 2 Intel or SATA 3 Marvell.
"often" ??
I have not seen, nor heard of, one that did not suck ass.
Unless someone chimes in with data I think it is pretty safe to say that the Marvel SATA3 simply ARE inferior to the native SATA2.
I am happy to be shown to be wrong...but I ain't seen it.
Alright i recently retired my raid 0 set up since i was getting interment failures...Did a clean install with 1803 on the same SSD cause my dam MFT was somehow on the old raid setup.....but i want to make sure i have the correct drivers installed. Seems like i had intel drivers installed under storage controllers and or IDE ATA controllers....right now its just showing standard Microsoft ones...Anyone here using windows 10 latest build and intel drivers?.....Cause im sure it gives higher performance at least to some degree. Take a look in your device manager and let me know please.
possibly...i mean its not like my new storage drive (Seagate Exos) was striped or anything..but it was running with intel drivers and was hitting around 230MBS with crystal mark....under microsoft generic driver its topping out around 200.....its been MY experience vendor specific drivers ALWAYS perform better....but i do appreciate your input. Are you trying to tell me that i cant install intel drivers just because i have it set to ACHI instead of Raid in the bios.....I always figured it was the same thing if the drives were not stripped....Did i have a bad understanding of how it really works? lolIntel INF drivers don't really improve performance in almost all cases. You might benefit if you hacked your BIOS to support newer versions of the ICH10R under RAID situations -- but you just abandoned your RAID0. Windows 10 drivers vs Intel drivers are no performance difference in the real world. Want faster disk speed? Throw in an LSI SAS HBA or ASMedia SATA3 adapter.
Are you trying to tell me that i cant install intel drivers just because i have it set to ACHI instead of Raid in the bios.....I always figured it was the same thing if the drives were not stripped....Did i have a bad understanding of how it really works? lol
I'm running an LSI SAS9211 PCIE 8x raid controller card flashed to IT firmware for JBOD with no bios at post and it's easily just as fast as any Intel SATA 3 onboard solution.
I'm also running a m.2 to PCIE adapter which is technically way faster than SATA 3 and realistically speaking I can quite easily live with SATA 3 via the LSI SAS9211, the difference isn't that staggering.
Same here. The only real limit for NVMe was PCIe 2.0 which capped speeds around 1400MB/s on my 950 Pro. I haven't had any issues with my 9211 and spinners.
Throw in an LSI SAS HBA or ASMedia SATA3 adapter.
An LSI SAS HBA is extremely unlikely to work as expected. I'm pretty sure I posted my experience with an LSI HBA in this very thread, had to jump through hoops just to get the system to post and couldn't use it to boot an OS. Most pointless exercise I ever undertook and it ended up in a box in the garage.
My main PC used daily:
- Dell T5500.
- Dual X5675 Xeons.
- Nvidia 980Ti.
- LSI 9211-8i flashed to IT mode with no boot bios for SATA 2 6Gbps.
- Kingston HyperX m.2 SSD on a m.2 to pcie adapter as the boot drive.
- Soundblaster X-Fi
- Seagate 1TB HDD for general storage.
- Hitachi 1TB HDD for /home (OS is Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS).
- 12GB ECC DDR3 (6GB + 6GB).
- LG HDDVD/BD optical drive.
- Dual HP EliteDisplay E241i IPS 1920 x 1200 monitors.
Large image warning, if they're too big let me know and I'll use smaller images.
One thing I could recommend to you is to mount 2 80mm fans in the back to help exhaust the air out. I did that with mine (Dual X5660, 96GB RAM, Radeon 6970), it helped bring the temps down a bit.