Finally decided to ditch the SSD and go back to HDDs. Grabbed another one of these for RAID0.

why ditch the ssd? its quiet and less power hungry...

I don't get why people are ditching their SSD's all the time. They must have had some shitty ones or something. I don't think I will ever be able to go back to HHD's. LOL Mushkin and Crucial have me spoiled.

I have a Gskill Phoenix Pro 60Gb, and its just anoying all the crap you have to do to keep them running normal. Plus, I never had any room to install games or anything, and I can live with a few extra seconds to boot windows. Id rather have 1200Gb of quick space then 60Gb of fast space. Plus, I needed a Vista install to play certain games that dont work on Win7, and wouldnt have been able to use TRIM with Vista.

Here is the larger partition with Win7 on it, just over 1Tb.

wonder how big of a gain you would get by short stroking those to 1/2 lba size? ;)

short stroking...sounds porny....lol

does wd have a short stroking tool?

The first image is short stroked to 120Gb. The normal bench lost some speed on the 1tb run, but the file bench is much improved.
All you have to do is set up RAID with less then full size to short stroke.

Random tests will perform better . The newer large mechanical drives REALLY benefit from sustained traffic. The big difference is small file size transfers.
Any drive can be tuned for a test though.


I think HC is talking about a specific size. Instead of partitioning a drive smaller (which is enough in my limited experience) but physically tell the motherboard that the drive is only so large. While short stroking a partition on a mechanical drive improves performance. Short stroking the entire drive in theory reduces the overhead on the LBA controller also. Assuming that is what HC is talking about.