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I have a OCZ RevoDrive X2 128GB in RAID 0 mode (two 55GB partitions) installed on my P55A-UD3 mainobard. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 64 bit and provided the OCZ drivers during install. When I run a speed test, I get about half of the performance that tests made me expect to get. Anyone got any ideas ?
My results:
What I expected:
Torque
Posted 2014-03-31T12:01:01.093
Reputation: 221
The linked benchmarks are not with a RAID. You can't compare the two benchmarks for that reason. – Ramhound – 2014-03-31T13:03:55.833
So are you saying that OCZ by default ships their drives configured to use a RAID setup specifically aimed at nothing but improving speed, which then lowers speed by half ? I find that extremely hard to believe, and could find no evidence on the net about OCZ basically crippling their drives. – Torque – 2014-03-31T15:49:04.097
I assume you have the current firmware and are using a SATA 3 connection? You linked to benchmarks which has products that don't support dual-partition RAID setup you describe which is the reason I point out the benchmarks are with that feature disabled. – Ramhound – 2014-03-31T15:52:33.303
How I know the benchmark is not in RAID mode is because of the following:
118.6 GB * 2 ~= 223.59 GB– Ramhound – 2014-03-31T15:56:37.200That explains it - I was under the impression it was the same device, just with a different size, but apparently, they are quite different, so I was comparing with the wrong device. My bad. Is there a way to delete my question ? It doesn't seem like it would be helpful for anyone to stumble across this. – Torque – 2014-03-31T17:48:12.597
It is the same device but the RAID 0 mode is an optional feature is it not? Your benchmark clearly was in RAID 0 mode because its exactly half of the 223.60GB == 240GB model. – Ramhound – 2014-03-31T18:00:43.697
That's a coincidence - RAID 0 is striping, it doesn't consume extra space. – Torque – 2014-03-31T18:23:28.580
Perhaps. Except there isn't a 128GB model
– Ramhound – 2014-03-31T18:25:34.667Riddle solved: despite the serial number of the device ending in -X2, it's not actually a RevoDrive X2 but a regular RevoDrive. My bad, sorry for wasting everyones time. – Torque – 2014-04-02T10:38:27.370