Lol, not done yet?
Post your hard drive benchmarks!
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Lol, not done yet?
Soldato
Nope, been almost a week of waiting about! It's now finally finished!!! WOHOO!!!
I can actually run applications and don't have to make a coffee while I wait. If I hadn't already spent too much money on this build I would get a hardware raid card but I think now it's done that should be it. Fingers firmly crossed!
Ok, here's the new bench with the previous below.
Raid 5, 5x500gb WD drives, 64 stripe size:
BEFORE Raid 5 migration, so Raid 0 with 4x500gb WD drives, 128kb stripe:
They're pretty much identical to my eyes, no apparent drop in performance. Oh wait, just crashed in Crysis, had to hard reset - 9 hours for my RAID to verify, aaargh - slooooooowww.... /o\
I can actually run applications and don't have to make a coffee while I wait. If I hadn't already spent too much money on this build I would get a hardware raid card but I think now it's done that should be it. Fingers firmly crossed!
Ok, here's the new bench with the previous below.
Raid 5, 5x500gb WD drives, 64 stripe size:
BEFORE Raid 5 migration, so Raid 0 with 4x500gb WD drives, 128kb stripe:
They're pretty much identical to my eyes, no apparent drop in performance. Oh wait, just crashed in Crysis, had to hard reset - 9 hours for my RAID to verify, aaargh - slooooooowww.... /o\
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Soldato
hehe, sucks eh! 
All done now, I'm scared to do anything that might upset my PC now.
All done now, I'm scared to do anything that might upset my PC now.
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I am curious as to what you think about the following. You know I said that the benchmarks don't represent it fairly to me as it stonks along for normal duties on my network and server? I just made an iso of my Crysis disc on the c drive of my server (raid 0 setup) and moved it across to the d drive (3ware array). The iso is 6.03gb and went across in under 50 seconds easily which for a single file transfer I think is pretty fine non?
2 x 250 GB Seagate 7200.10 (ST3250410AS) - single platter, in RAID0 on ICH9R cont. using 32KB stripe:
Considering the price I paid for them I think they offer decent performance...but they are not as "snappy" as Raptors in RAID0...
A single HDD was giving an Average read in HDTach of 85MB/s.
Considering the price I paid for them I think they offer decent performance...but they are not as "snappy" as Raptors in RAID0...
A single HDD was giving an Average read in HDTach of 85MB/s.
Soldato
3 x Westerm Digital (wd3200js) 8MB Cache on IP35 Pro (64K Stripe) Vista 64 Ultimate
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5x WD2500KS RAID0 128kb stripe on Asus Maximus Formula:
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2 x 36GB WD Raptors in RAID0 on an ICH9R controller...
Nice speed for a pair of Raptors.
Here are my two 150gb raptors in RAID 0. I made a mistake in my previous post, the SCSI drives are only 10K - I bought the wrong ones! The drives I intend to buy are not out yet - http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/storage/hdd/ehdd/mba3073np-mba3300np.html
2 x Fujitsu MAW3073NP U320 10k 76gb drives on an adaptec 29320 U320 scsi card. The card is mounted in a PCI-X slot.
Access time seems a little large there - what is the rated speed on a single 10k?
Underboss
Heres mine
any good?
Maxtor Diamondmax 21 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
HD TUNE 2.50
HD TUNE 2.54
any good?
Maxtor Diamondmax 21 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
HD TUNE 2.50
HD TUNE 2.54
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Soldato
Just got a 750gb samsung f1. was kinda hoping it would be better than that