RAID 0 SLOW

Hi all..
Ive got two digital raptors both 36gig on raid 0
Both connected on SATA1 and 2
I may be completely wrong in assuming somethings amiss - but to me the system is not accessing data as quick as id expect.
They're two of the fastest drives around and yet i still have to wait a fair amount of time for certain games to install.
Roughly 4 minutes to install a game like GTA SA - it just seems very slow ?
I ran Software Sandra at it rated the drive index at 80mbs - is this normal ?
The pc overall is running very well - stable at least - just wondering if im missing anything obvious that could speed the drives up.
I heard the mb sata3 and 4 sockets were better for oc  - would swapping the cables over to sata sockets 3 and 4 harm/wipe the data on the drives..??
secondly would this give me any performance increase?
Any help as always greatly appreciated..
Thankyou..
Athlon 3400+
K8N - platinum gf3 chipset
1 gig Corsair
2 x Western digital raptor(raid-0)
Galaxy 128mb 6800 Vid card
Dvd rom
Cd writer
Xp - Sp2
Norton Anti V

Quote from: Chris26 on 15-September-05, 04:57:11
Just changed the sockets to 3 and 4 and agp clock to 67.
HD TACH - Burst speed - 202.2 mb/s
Random access - 8.4ms
Cpu Utilization 4%
Average 74.6mb/s 
Byter how should i do i determine the size of the stripe that was used? - is it possible to change without reformatting?
Thanks
I'm not sure how to tell the raid stripe size except durring install or Maybe using the nvidia raid manager if it's in your controll panel but either way if you wanted to change the stripe size you would have to rebuild the array(reformat), with those new scores I think your doing great though.

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