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Recent content by Tronyx

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    Adaptec 6405 Slow Write Speeds

    Ok, I put the drives in another machine, found the idle time was set to 8 seconds, and changed it to 300 as advised. Honestly, it looks like performance has gotten worse. Here's another round of tests: 100MB 500 1000 2000 4000 Another thing I noticed that's weird is the way...
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    Adaptec 6405 Slow Write Speeds

    Well, looks like two of the disks may be having some S.M.A.R.T. issues: Read Error Rate rawValue="0" Spin-Up Time in millisecs rawValue="4391" Start/Stop Count rawValue="366" Reallocated Sectors Count rawValue="0" Seek Error Rate rawValue="0" Power-On Hours rawValue="3720" Spin Retry Count...
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    Adaptec 6405 Slow Write Speeds

    The reason it is recommended to switch the individual disk cache off and have the controller cache on is for protection if there's a power outage. If you're transferring data the info in the disk cache will get lost (if you don't have a UPS) whereas the controller has the ZMM attached. With a...
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    Adaptec 6405 Slow Write Speeds

    I've previously had nothing but great performance from them in software RAIDs and even a hardware RAID 0 that's currently in a Server of mine (though I know 0 and 5 are VERY different beasts) so I figured why not? Despite the months of digging I've NEVER stumbled across the post you linked from...
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    Adaptec 6405 Slow Write Speeds

    Before I start I just want to say that I've done a TON of research on this and have tried everything that I can find, short of getting a different controller, to resolve the write speed issues that I am seeing. Current Rig: OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit Case: Corsair Obsidian Series...
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