Just an update here, and if anyone finds this thread later on - I was successful!
Not in Windows however, I had to create the array using mdadm and with the use of WinMD 3rd party driver, to allow it to be mounted on Windows.
For reference, here are Disk Mark tests before and after.
It’s not quite 2x the performance, but it’s definitely better, and best of all, it was free performance!
The benefits exist for sure, due to the SAS version that exposes them as two different drives, which you can easily raid and get the full expected 500mb/s. The SATA version, which I have, and cheaper ofc, doesn’t do it that way, even though you can split the drive in two and independently, both run at the max regular 250mb/s speed, I’m trying to “hack” the same solution to extract the benefit, but it might indeed not be possible due to the limitation of them being partitions and not drives.
Just an update here, and if anyone finds this thread later on - I was successful!
Not in Windows however, I had to create the array using mdadm and with the use of WinMD 3rd party driver, to allow it to be mounted on Windows.
For reference, here are Disk Mark tests before and after.
It’s not quite 2x the performance, but it’s definitely better, and best of all, it was free performance!