Post your hard drive benchmarks!

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:

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BEFORE Raid 5 migration, so Raid 0 with 4x500gb WD drives, 128kb stripe:

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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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rpstewart said:
At the end of the day for what you're using it for those are the important things, out and out performance isn't always necessary.
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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:

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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. :)
 
2 x Fujitsu MAW3073NP U320 10k 76gb drives on an adaptec 29320 U320 scsi card. The card is mounted in a PCI-X slot.

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