So I previously posted a thread regarding slow reads on a Corsair Force 3 raid 0 in my 2010 i7 Macbook Pro. I happened to also pick up a OWC Elite Pro Dual mini with two 1TB drives in RAID 1.
What's crazy is that when I have the Elite Pro Dual mini plugged into the firewire 800 port my writes jump from 330MB/s to 459MB/s. Reads jump from 280MB/s to 505MB/s. The moment I unplug the external drive from firewire, reads and writes drop back down to the lower speeds. These numbers were obtained with The Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed test application. Using xbench, uncached writes went from 253MB/s to 326MB/s.
Again, when I unplug the drive, speeds go back down.
Anyone know what's going on?
What's crazy is that when I have the Elite Pro Dual mini plugged into the firewire 800 port my writes jump from 330MB/s to 459MB/s. Reads jump from 280MB/s to 505MB/s. The moment I unplug the external drive from firewire, reads and writes drop back down to the lower speeds. These numbers were obtained with The Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed test application. Using xbench, uncached writes went from 253MB/s to 326MB/s.
Again, when I unplug the drive, speeds go back down.
Anyone know what's going on?