Well i finally got round to completing the final phase of the
c2d upgrade.
Been a long time planning & a bit bumpy getting here , on 2nd commando & CPU (though it may be that cPU was issue all along). But i'm 24/7 stable @ 3465(9x385) 4:5
So anyway got an extra 2 of these babies 80 Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) 0A30356 Deskstar 7K80, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache giving me 4.
2x Raid 0 Performance
Have now started using Matrix raid with 2 raid volumes. Theidea is best explained here Bling - Enter The Matrix
Downside is u can only set up the Matrix arrays from xp using Intel Matrix array software.
Slow Array(Volume_0001
Fast Array
1st shot at sizing may have it 2 large 72GB rather than 80Gb may get rid of the dip in the 80~100% zone, that should increase the slow array.
Comparison eclipses the oc i've got with the rest of the rig Only slight adverse impact is on cpu load which i think i can live with.
for the £ i think it's a damn fine performance return. There may be slight improvements i can get.