Western Digital RE3 in RAID 0 via ICHR9 Southbridge

If you've read my previous post, you'll know that my POS mobo's ICH9R southbridge refuses to play nice with SATA II drives in ACHI or RAID.

My younger brother happens to have the same chipset on his mobo (P35 + ICH9R) and guess what? RAID 0 WORKS! God damn ASUS.

Well, I took the chance to capitalize and run some benchmarks (to set as a baseline). I ran HD Tune and IOmeter (as Winbench 99 won't run on x64 environments - all is forgiven since it is almost 10 years old!).

Now I am still playing around with the IOmeter results (difference between a linear single outstanding I/Os vs a heavy load of 256 outstanding I/Os.) but here is the result from HD Tune.

RAID 0 with a 128k stripe size.


Mmm.... Tomorrow I will take it for a spin on the ICH10R southbridge (courtesy of my Dad's P45 mobo) and put that through the wringer.

Also once I figure out the IOmeter results, I will make some purdy graphs (and also it will probably lead to a full fledged article/review on TechARP).

Stay tuned!