I have 2 Seagates 320gb in raid0 on leopard. They will soon be 2 raptors.. but for now.. here are my disk results
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absolutely no advanced set up required.. simply the normal set up to get raid0 on the board.. boot into osx.. format the drive in diskutility, good to go.
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wow......this result is better than I had with my two 36GB raptors on the ez backup raid 
well.. that partition is empty. You should see how quick it drops when i fill it up. I plan to get another raptor and put it in raid0.
This is my result with two single platter Samsung 250 Gb disks, RAID-setup with diskutil, booting from this disks using the darwin rd=disk trick...
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but the mtron is on the way.....
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but the mtron is on the way.....
NICE, the raptors do pretty good in raid, hope they are not too noisy...
today i finally received a new CPU, Q9300, overclocked to low 3 GHz and my diskbench went up too.
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thats not too bad for these slow samsungs.
On a german forum poeple diskuss the increase in workspeed using a SSD. XP boot from 69 sek to 46 sek, winrar test 44 sek to 30 sek, applications pop up instantly on mouseclick...
I hope it will be the same with Leo....
happy hacking...
Jürgen
today i finally received a new CPU, Q9300, overclocked to low 3 GHz and my diskbench went up too.
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thats not too bad for these slow samsungs.
On a german forum poeple diskuss the increase in workspeed using a SSD. XP boot from 69 sek to 46 sek, winrar test 44 sek to 30 sek, applications pop up instantly on mouseclick...
I hope it will be the same with Leo....
happy hacking...
Jürgen
nice speed guys ! are those results with empty disks ?? how much diskspace was in use already?
with my two raptors (only 36GB) using raid0 I can´t get a better result than 112 in disk test.
that´s probably because of the smaller 8 MB cache
with my two raptors (only 36GB) using raid0 I can´t get a better result than 112 in disk test.
that´s probably because of the smaller 8 MB cache
well initially it was done with a fresh install of leopard.. but now i have it more than half way filled and i get same results.
Hey guys,
I've been trying to get raid0 to boot, but it gets stuck on a black screen with a cursor. That's when I install directly on to a raid set (using the installer's disk utility to set it up)
I've since deleted the set and installed onto a single drive and it's working, but i'd like to stripe it.
I've got an Asus P5K-E, Q6600 and 2xSeagate 500's.
Did you stripe it after getting it running? or during install?
I've been trying to get raid0 to boot, but it gets stuck on a black screen with a cursor. That's when I install directly on to a raid set (using the installer's disk utility to set it up)
I've since deleted the set and installed onto a single drive and it's working, but i'd like to stripe it.
I've got an Asus P5K-E, Q6600 and 2xSeagate 500's.
Did you stripe it after getting it running? or during install?
Click to view attachment my raid0
During my efforts to upgrade to 10.5.4 from 10.5.2 I think I killed my 2 250gb drives in raid 0. Anyone know of a way to rebuild these? This is where I kept a majority of my tv shows and will be very upset if they are all gone.
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Guys, i have asus p5wdh dlx + Q6600 with Xbench 150+. I saw this threat topic which produce higher Xbench for same config. So, my question; is it boot leopard with raid0 better than using exist sata? or better leave raid0 for data+movie?? :-)
Got it from your howto:
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--RAID 0 (Fast Raid) or 1(Mirror) On Asus P5W DH--
Raid 0 works natively, and perfectly with this board.
Raid 0 pairs 2 identical hard drives for increased (sometimes double) performance.
Raid 1 backs up the first hard drive simultaneously with the second drive for back up.
Most motherboards have software raid. It uses the on board S-Ata controller, and drivers for windows to emulate Raid0. The Asus P5W DH on the other hand has 3 Raid options, 1 working in Leopard. There is 2 software Raids, Jmicron, ICH7R. Then there is the Hardware Raid.
The 2 Orange ports on the Asus P5W DH, labeled "EZ_Raid" are is infact a hardware raid controller. Silicon Image. Using Raid0 in Leopard is as easy as doing it in windows with this controller.
-Simply plug in the 2 identical hard drives to the 2 orange ports, switch the pin on the motherboard to Raid 0 or Raid 1.
-Boot into bios, Enable the Setting "EZ_Raid Mode change" which will stay enabled for ONE boot only, don't worry when it is disabled later.
-Install Leopard, or windows, like normal. The drive is labeled "External Disk 0"
As an example of the speed, a good S-ATA drive at 7200RPM scores about 80mb/s in both read and write on xbench. My raptor 10k RPM scores about 105mb/s in read and write. With 2 of those babies in raid 0, I score 205mb/s every time.
Raid 0 works natively, and perfectly with this board.
Raid 0 pairs 2 identical hard drives for increased (sometimes double) performance.
Raid 1 backs up the first hard drive simultaneously with the second drive for back up.
Most motherboards have software raid. It uses the on board S-Ata controller, and drivers for windows to emulate Raid0. The Asus P5W DH on the other hand has 3 Raid options, 1 working in Leopard. There is 2 software Raids, Jmicron, ICH7R. Then there is the Hardware Raid.
The 2 Orange ports on the Asus P5W DH, labeled "EZ_Raid" are is infact a hardware raid controller. Silicon Image. Using Raid0 in Leopard is as easy as doing it in windows with this controller.
-Simply plug in the 2 identical hard drives to the 2 orange ports, switch the pin on the motherboard to Raid 0 or Raid 1.
-Boot into bios, Enable the Setting "EZ_Raid Mode change" which will stay enabled for ONE boot only, don't worry when it is disabled later.
-Install Leopard, or windows, like normal. The drive is labeled "External Disk 0"
As an example of the speed, a good S-ATA drive at 7200RPM scores about 80mb/s in both read and write on xbench. My raptor 10k RPM scores about 105mb/s in read and write. With 2 of those babies in raid 0, I score 205mb/s every time.
TQ
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