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so guys this is the moment I am finally testing my 9268 eye raid card with a configuration that I think can make it reach an internal bottleneck holy crow look at that so I have taken my dual Elmcrest configuration and I have doubled it so I'm running for Intel SST 510 series 120 gigabyte drives in raid 0 using a 128 kilo kill bit 128 K stripe and all of the other options that I found to be quite optimal so here you can actually see my results with two drives and these are my preliminary results with a single Drive focus please come on focus you can focus there you go okay so I'm running 5 tests at 4 gigs across my 445 gig drive which is those 4 drives in raid 0 and it looks like we're looking at about 1.5 megabytes per second read and that seems to be hitting an internal bottleneck on the raid card itself and then for right you can see the rights are just monstrous so the rights are actually still scaling from 2 drives to 4 drives almost exactly double so we're looking at almost 1 gigabyte per second sequential write speeds to these 4 intel 510 series drives so i'm going to just wait for the rest of the tests to finish and then i'll show you guys the final results okay so I finished running crystal disk mark as well as PC mark Vantage so you can see here the suite has finished running so on the Left I have the 4 Drive array you can see that random performance doesn't scale especially on the right side quite as well as the sequential performance on the right I have dual drives on the onboard controller because really the only reason to run a third-party controller on a p67 motherboard would be if you want to run more than two six gigabit per second SSD drives in raid zero so based on testing two drives on this controller the 92 sixty against two drives on the onboard performance was very similar so we're looking at whether you would get any benefit from going to four drives from two drives using a third-party controller which you would need to do because no p67 motherboard supports more than two say two three six gigabit per second drives in raid zero so here you've got the crystal disk mark performance numbers and here the PC mark Vantage numbers are a bit of a mystery so I'll just show you the actual scores here so hold on let me just try and remember which is which here we go so here's the onboard rate where we have 66 Meg's per second and as the oh no that's the PC mark score yeah sixty six thousand six hundred and forty four hard drive PC mark score whereas with the four drive raid zero we have fifty eight thousand five hundred and thirty seven PC mark score all right so the on-board raid zero with two drives actually scores better overall than the four drive raid 0 array but we don't really understand why that is until we go a little bit deeper into the results so you can see here actually why don't I put these side-by-side so you can compare them more easily yeah that'll do okay so at the bottom we have our raid zero or rather on the Left we have our raid zero with four drives and on the right we have our raid zero on the onboard controller with two drives so you can see the four drive raid 0 array cleanly beeps the on board to drive array which it should so it should in everything but video editing using Windows Live Movie Maker and Windows Media Center where this one destroys it so this looks like it's actually skewing the results overall because you can see as you get further down adding music application loading things like antivirus these all score dramatically better on the four drive raid 0 array so I'm going to pull out one more result here using my handy dandy mark reader and that is going to be the two drives on the RAID controller rather than on the onboard so you can see that the score is actually quite similar look at that so it looks like our performance doesn't scale that much with the ad in RAID controller the LSI controller by adding more drives so there you have it it looks like two drives is about all that we are able to leverage with PC mark Vantage I mean you can see the scores do improve a little bit this is four drives this is two drives but that's pretty much it so thanks guys for checking out this video on running for intel SSD 510 C 2 3 6 gigabit per second drives against two drives don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos