Hello there,
 
Recently I bought ATA100 RAID Controller (Dawicontrol DC-100 UDMA-100 controller with Highpoint chip "HPT370") so I striped my two 80GB Seagate HDD drives in one 160GB Array.
Now in my case data blocks are written inteleaved between 2 disk drives, so the performance shuld be nearly doubled...
BUT the performance is actually really bad. I mean everything works so slow, much slower than before when my two HDDs were connected to primary master and primary slave IDE controller. I reinstalled my WindowsXP with no luck... It still takes ages (for exaple to copy something from one partition to another and when I am copying something everything else works really slow, for example I hardly open my email client when another application is accessing HDD at the same time.
 
Does anyone know what shuld I try to do?
Any tips and tricks?
 
I know it shuld work faster...
 
My configuration is:
 
- BIOS Setting Utility on my RAID card is version 2.31 (and can't be flashed to newer version),
- WindowsXP Drivers are version 2.34 (also tried 2.31 since same versions are recommended but with no luck)
- ATA RAID Management Software is version 2.31
- My HDDs are connected:
- one to primary master and another to secondary master on RAID controller (as it is said in User's Manual)
- My CD-ROM and DVD-ROM are connected to Primary and Secondary Master on IDE controller
- My CPU is Intel Pentium III 800EB Mhz
- My Mainboard is ASUS CUSL2-C (Black Pearl)
- 512MB RAM, ...
 
Thanks,