Just got a phenom 2 940 going, very disapointed

jkrause6

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maybe i'm doing something wrong but this thing is slow.

wicked slow.

system specs are

2 x 2 gigs ocz reaper 1066 @ cl 5

750 watt corsair power supply

asus m4a79 deluxe mobo

the problem my be my raid array.

i have a 4 drive raid 5 made with crappy 16mb cache 7200 rpm hitachi drives.

according to crystal disk i'm getting 9.8 mbs random write, 130mbs seq read.

64kb clusters.

maybe get a cheap raid card? i just figured w/ 4 cores the cpu could handle the raid.

let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

this thing is slow. compared to my i7 it's a freaking turtle. it's alot slower than my old e8500 at 3.8ghz that had 1 raptor as hard drive. i gave that computer away to my cousin. perhaps i should have given him the AMD rig :(
 
Sounds like one of your hdd's might be bad or somethin, id break up the array and run seatools or another diagnostic check on each of the drives to find which is bad, as those slow read/write times mean u have a hdd problem.
 
finding bad drive?

whats the best way to find the bad drive. or is a 9.8 mbs random write what is expected. should i just do a raid 10? using on board software raid.

i'm just kinda at a loss as to what to do next.

the cpu seems fine, it ran super pi in 18.47 sec.

i sunk 200$ into these 4 drives. there's got to be a way to get them running fast.

is there a program i can run off of an iso or boot disk to see if any of the drives are dead?
 
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Break up the raid array first off. Then download the ultimate boot cd, or seatools for dos, then burn to a cd, boot and run tests on each individual drive, whichever drive fails is the bad drive. In a raid 5 array you should expect at least 200mb/s and maybe more like 300mb/s read on those drives.
 
Break up the raid array first off. Then download the ultimate boot cd, or seatools for dos, then burn to a cd, boot and run tests on each individual drive, whichever drive fails is the bad drive. In a raid 5 array you should expect at least 200mb/s and maybe more like 300mb/s read on those drives.

thanks.
 
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