Are my HDD's Rubbish?

imhiya · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:37

I decided to get Crystaldiskmark to see how my drives would do, and to find my c drive is the slowest of them all. Would i find a huge gain in performance from a SSD?

VortexA1 · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:40

Yes you would find a huge gain in performance with an ssd.

Where your hdd is majorly let down is in the 4k read/writes.

An ssd would obliterate it.

not only that but it's the practically zero latency.

shahpor · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:46

Why have you scribbled on the first image?

imhiya · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:47

Because i took the screenshot after i changed to do my D drive but hadn't yet pressed "All".

shahpor · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:51

Oh, I see.

So you did you C drive at 100Mb and all the others at 50mb, right?

imhiya · 21 Mar 2010 at 13:55

Yeh, I tested the D Drive at 100mb and got pretty much same scores as before, so it didn't change anything just how long it took to do.

shahpor · 21 Mar 2010 at 14:05

Well, for comparison, this is what my Samsung F3 drive did just now:

GSXR Gaz Mc · 22 Mar 2010 at 21:57

this is my samsung f3
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 144.591 MB/s
Sequential Write : 141.032 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 48.100 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 65.426 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.552 MB/s [ 134.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.218 MB/s [ 297.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.122 MB/s [ 273.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.229 MB/s [ 300.1 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 27.9% (27.9/100.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/03/22 21:55:50
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)

imhiya · 30 Mar 2010 at 18:53

After getting two WB black 640gb this is now my speed.

TheVoice · 30 Mar 2010 at 19:08

That's an incredibly low resolution.

imhiya · 30 Mar 2010 at 19:22

TheVoice said:
That's an incredibly low resolution.

Lol yes it was, just after i had installed windows 7.

twitch · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:44

Well I run 2 F3 500 in raid 0 so maybe won't be such a good guide but it's not twice the speed of one drive..
Against the slightly under preforming 6Gb ssd I have

the top one is ssd

Craig321 · 30 Mar 2010 at 21:54

OP, those are pretty average if it's a single drive. I'm getting the results below with my two old WD2500AAKS drives (RAID 0):

I think it's time I bought a SSD, or a couple of nice single platters considering single drives can outperform my array now :rolleyes:

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