Patriot Warp SSD & Raid

[madmanjohn]

I run a small lighting and sound company in the midwest. we have several computers that do various sound and light chores-all desktops-due to config and video needs. I just recently built two Biostar ta780gm2+hp's. Due to reliability issues as these are on the road 6 days a week, we stopped running raid a few years back as the was too many drive issues. Im looking at using a pair of warp 32s for the OS and we are running Vista 64 with the amd 9850 quad and 8gb of 1066mhz ram and everything is fine. this buisness is extremely hard on drives and we go thru about 10 to 20 a year, all due to transport issues. My main Q is the performance vs mobo issue, and ive heard some have a stutter problem and that yours do not. this is the RS780g Northbridge and sb700 south. Anything i should know to get the optimum performance?
Asking first because a problem for us means a lost show and arenas full of P.O.'d concert fans. Thanks.

[patriotmemory]

You don't really need to set up anything but I was told that if the user disable’s virtual memory, it will increase the performance of the SSD drive. Also, for raid applications, the user should disable both NCQ and HCI in the bios. Also if you install windows in 64K block size it will improve performance, but only for large files.



For example:

If you wanted to copy a 1K file to your drive, and your drive was formatted using the 4K block size, then it would only take up 4K of space. But if you had your drive formatted to a 64K block size, then your 1K file would take up 64K (1 block) of space on the drive. You have to delete or write over a whole block for a file smaller than the block, you cannot write on partial blocks.



So it is recommended to format at a 4K block size (the default), unless all you have are large files such as movies, etc., then the performance would increase to a 64K block size.