Can Someone Check My Hard Drives Speeds

Kingy1968 · 18 Feb 2012 at 16:13

Hi all ive just done a benchmark on all 4 of my hard drives... As you can see from below the 1st one is my Crucial M4 128gb SSD, the 2nd and 3rd are Samsung F4 2tb's. All 3 of these are plugged directly into the motherboard sata ports (The SSD is in the 6gbs one). The last drive on the list is also a Samsung F4 2tb but is plugged into a external usb3 caddy...

Can anyone tell me if the speed are ok for these as im not 100% sure myself..

Many thanks..

wazza300 · 18 Feb 2012 at 17:34

i think you would be better running atto test,cant really understand that one

Orcvader · 18 Feb 2012 at 18:31

It's only showing read speeds.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1749/ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46.html

This is a good benchmark.

Kingy1968 · 18 Feb 2012 at 22:18

Now im really stuck..... You can see that the C: D: & E: drives are plugged into the sata ports on the MB.
I have the H: plugged into an external USB3 caddy which is plugged into the USB3 port on the back of my Gigabyte GA-Z68XP UD3..
The last 2 pictures of the H: drive show the caddys drive in the device properties to QUICK REMOVAL (DEFAULT) which is the 4th picture down and then BETTER PEFORMANCE which is the 5th picture....
I am having really bad write speeds on this which show on the graph and I have no idea on what is causing this problem..

So really what I am asking is, is my speeds ok on all drives? Any idea what could be causing problems on the external??

Thanks Guys...

wazza300 · 19 Feb 2012 at 02:03

looks fine to me,its about right for the samsung 2tb,you will see less read/write going through usb ect,ssd looks fine too

Kingy1968 · 19 Feb 2012 at 07:30

wazza300 said:
looks fine to me,its about right for the samsung 2tb,you will see less read/write going through usb ect,ssd looks fine too

Yea but I was worried about the inconsistent 'Write' speeds on the USB3 External one...

As you can see it has some major crops sometimes , just seems to hang there..

As you can see from the 142077 to 3194 to 2152 then back to 141168, then further down back to 8464 then back higher...

chaparral · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:37

I heard there been problems with USB3 drivers and the chipset in some external caddys...

Kingy1968 · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:42

ive just tried a self powered USB3 WD 500gb and thats fine.....

Really weird ..... It seems dog slow...

chaparral · 19 Feb 2012 at 09:48

Are you using the lastest Etron USB 3.0 Driver (Version 105)

Direct Link to windows 7 64bit driver here
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/motherboard_driver_etron_usb3.exe

Kingy1968 · 19 Feb 2012 at 10:02

chaparral said:
Are you using the lastest Etron USB 3.0 Driver (Version 105)

Direct Link to windows 7 64bit driver here
http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Driver/motherboard_driver_etron_usb3.exe

I think I love you... lol...

I didnt have the Etron usb driver installed anyway, i just used the update drivers from internet option in the past and Etron was never an option and ive just checked on the MB disc and its not even on there....

Does this now look better... It does in my eyes...

chaparral · 19 Feb 2012 at 10:28

Looks perfect now

Kingy1968 · 19 Feb 2012 at 13:30

chaparral said:
Looks perfect now

Cheer mate...

I didnt even know about this Etron driver.... As I said its not even on the drivers disc for the motherboard so I presumed all the drivers would have been loaded from the original install....

wazza300 · 19 Feb 2012 at 14:05

I thought maybe because it was on Usb port that it was slow,its best to look on mb website amd install all the latest drivers,the usb3 driver would be on there,those figures are spot on now,that's what I'm getting with same drive installed internally