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Over the weekend put the same ssd in a Vostro E6850 and installed xp. Benchmarked near perfect at 250 read 100 write. Would love to know what’s preventing it from running this quick on the i7?

Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately this system has to run xp 32bit for specific older programs being used. What really ticks me off is that I have a laptop with xp and a 80gb x25 that benchmarks perfect, but I can't get this desktop to do the same :(

But if alignment was the issue shouldn’t I be seeing the same poor results when attached to the win7 machine? And the fact that hdtune is saying UltraATA100 is enabled and not UltraATA133, should I be concerned with this?

I don’t know much about alignment but if I take this ssd that was created with xp and attach it to my other system(win 7) that ssd gets the expected benchmark results in crystalmark. So doesn’t that suggest that the alignment is fine or am I just not understanding this?

I have an x25 160gb on a dell xps 8100 that has the Intel H57 series chipset. The system is running Windows Xp pro and is getting 215 mb/s reads on crystalmark . All the read tests in crystalmark are about 15-20 percent short of what it should be (the write speeds are all good). When I...

Stripe size is 128. I’m going to have to do some research on offset cause I have no idea what that is. What’s bothering me is this secret Dell partition that is being forced on to the drive with my win7 Dell cd. Could that be affecting offset? Also did an image restore with the win7 tool that...

Take a look at 512kb HDtune block size vs 64kb on raid0 x25m. What causes such a huge variation in read performance with these settings?

Here is what HD tune looks like when I set HD tune block size to 512kb(compared to the 64kb default). Why is there such a huge variation in read performance with these settings?

Well I reinstalled but this time I manually installed the intel matrix driver(Ver:8.9.0.1023 ) from a usb stick instead of completely skipping this step like the first time. Also chose to format during the install. Anyway I’m still getting the same HD Tune results as before. At a loss now...

What block size is everyone using using for their HD Tune tests? Is everyone just using the HD Tune default 64KB? I'm seeing huge variations in results with raid0 x25m using 64kb blocks vs 512kb.

What block size is everyone using using for their HDtune tests? Is everyone just using the HDtune default 64KB?

John I think that write caching post is more of a minor tweek, were as this issue is cutting my expected results in half. Maybe I'll try a reinstall later. Just worried about breaking stuff.

Well I installed the Matrix storage manager and rebooted. Still getting the same results, however I see that the driver is Ver:8.9.0.1023 in the properties section of Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID Controller. The instructions mention this… "If you are installing the operating system...

Old hippie I love your screen name. When I installed win 7 I think it just used the default raid drivers. At this point should I reinstall the OS or can I just install those drivers now. I see that the Matrix Storage Manager is on my “dell drivers” cd.

I am confused. Shouldn’t I be seeing read average of about 400+ for hd tune here? This is set up in a dell xps8000 raid 0 with 128 blocks on Win7 and the read avg is 250. Thanks for any Help.