Hello,

My system seems to be working, but slower than expected. If for example, I copy a file from the USB to a network drive it copies fast. If I copy the same file to the raid drives it is much slower. How can that be? A locally attached drive slower than network? I have a few blocks displaying media errors based on IRST. If I run a verify and scan, it doesn’t complete and crashes. The Raid drives are then unresponsive. A reboot and it works again.

Drivers may fix my issue or are the first point to start. I have looked on the ASUS website and the drivers there appear over 12 months. Google brought me here.
I note on the site there are allot of references to test or trial drivers.

1) Can someone offer a recommendation for the x99 sabertooth. I’m not looking for bleeding edge.
Running 13.2.0.1022 IASTORAV with standard and raid disks.
I’m looking at the recommendation and not sure to go v14.8.12.1059 original or v13.2.4.1000. You mentioned stay away from 15.

2) Do the drivers perhaps address some of the issues.

3) Have I given enough information?

My System
ASUS Sabertooth X99/USB 3.1, W10 x64 AU Prof, BIOS v1901, Intel i7 5930K, 32GB Corsair RAM DDR4 PC4-2666 ,SSD System: 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2, RAID 5 (4 x 4T Seagate)(2 volumes), 1 x 2T Sata, MSI GTX 980Ti 6GB GDDR5 RAM.

Many thanks in advance.

Norbs
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the problem you have seems to be coming from the PSU .
what is yours ?
you should check your connections and equilibrate them : so you have to find if your psu is multi-rails or not
http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3990

here is an example with a psu i had : Enermax Revolution 85+ 1250 Watt ATX23



and on the psu there should be a sticky showing this info



if it is then you should try to give one rail for the cpu , one or two others for the gfx , one for the mainboard , then if you have two others connect the hds to it or use the rails wisely .

if it is single rail then try to check the cables if they are in good shape and most of them connected : not one cable with 4 hds and one cable with zero hd..

then , i would use the hardware tool from the disk manufacturers to check them with surface test

may be i would go with 2x two hds 4To in raid 0 , with hds not on the same rail in the raid

@Fernando
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@Norbs,
Looking at your signature, i think first lot of updates to be done to progress. (BIOS, drivers, etc.)
Fernando gave you the right things to do.
I can help you step by step, if you want by PM.

bios and drivers updates can not make a so big difference ...the board is limited to 1 Gb by network card + QOS taking 20% : his transfer 'speed should be around 30 Mo/s to 60Mo/s by the network "At Best" . one HD of his raid can do 3 times that speed : http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_desktop_sshd_4tb_review
he has a cpu that needs 150W without overclock ...his gfx is also very hungry with a top power consumption at 400 W....
http://www.overclockers.com/msi-gtx-980-...eo-card-review/

he should use manufacturers tools http://www.seagate.com/support/by-product/software-and-apps/
like seatool http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/
to check and repair his drives .
best is dos but may be it needs controller to be in ide mode ; there is a windows release ...

@Fernando
I will test Trimcheck with V1.2.0.1049 for W10 x64 soon on ASUS P8Z77 and let you know.
You said V1.2.0.1048 for Win7-8, is there a typo in the start post ?

@Fernando,

Changelog typo refers to v1.2.0.1048 ..

@Fernando

I have a Samsung SM961 512GB m.2 NVMe
I installed Windows 2016 Server on it, it installed without asking any drivers.
I don't really get fast write speeds on it (see screenshot).

It's probably because of the driver, when I look the disk up in the device manager, it's using Microsoft Driver.
I tried downloading your driver pack, but it doesn't recognize the disk.

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I've used the following driver for the controller: Samsung NVMe drivers v2.0.0.1607 WHQL
I thaught I should be used on the disk driver also (when looking up in the device manager) because i have those slow write speeds...

I don't understand why the read speed is OK but the write speed is bad...

@dirkdvs,

Samsung SM961 is very similar to 960 PRO. I use v2.0.0.1607 under W10 x64 Home v1607.

You should have this similar CDM score:



As said Fernando, do you have properly set the 'Strategy Policies' ?



By curiosity can you provide the CrystalDiskInfo screenshot such as this one, so I can compare some essentials data (firmware and unsafe shutdown parameter) ?

With Samsung drivers, there is no need to check this box 'Strategy Policies' :)