After many failed attempts to get my Falcons working on an Adaptec RAID 5405 card I updated the Adaptec's firmware to 16501 (available since feb 18), wiped the drives (wiper.exe on this forum), configured a Raid 0 array with 128 stripe on the Adaptec and selected 'drive specified' for the caching option instead of my normal 'enable all', installed Windows 7 x64 without having to load a driver (included in Windows installation) and very surprisingly everything worked and kept working!! Repeated triple runs of EVEREST disc benchmark hours apart report no speed drop, infact a slight progressive increase, initially average 466, 3 hour later 476, 2 hours later 487.5.
Before doing the above I never suceeded completing an instalation on the Adaptec without the RAID controller losing a drive. I had succeeded on an intel x58 but the speed tapered off by the hour after 5hrs around 300MB/s and frequent hanging.
Not sure if this means TRIM is working with Windows 7x64 on Adaptec controllers with the latest firmware, but I am sure without the latest firmware Falcons and other new SSD's with the same controller were a no go on many RAID cards including Adaptec's 5405 despite older SSD's working.
Anyway, whether it was wiping the drives to get their speed to match, installing the new Adaptec firmware or choosing 'drive specified' in the controllers BIOS options or all of the preceding my RAIDing Falcon's now really fly
Before doing the above I never suceeded completing an instalation on the Adaptec without the RAID controller losing a drive. I had succeeded on an intel x58 but the speed tapered off by the hour after 5hrs around 300MB/s and frequent hanging.
Not sure if this means TRIM is working with Windows 7x64 on Adaptec controllers with the latest firmware, but I am sure without the latest firmware Falcons and other new SSD's with the same controller were a no go on many RAID cards including Adaptec's 5405 despite older SSD's working.
Anyway, whether it was wiping the drives to get their speed to match, installing the new Adaptec firmware or choosing 'drive specified' in the controllers BIOS options or all of the preceding my RAIDing Falcon's now really fly
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