36GB WD Raptor Performance

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I have recently purchased a 36GB WD Raptor to give my pc a bit more performance over my old ide drive.

Previously, I had a Maxtor 6Y080L0, 80GB 7200RPM with 2MB Cache. Benching with HD Tach, I get a burst speed of 121mb/s

Now that I have the raptor installed I am getting the following:

91.8MB/s Burst
8.8Ms Random Access

The access time is a little bit better, but the speed isnt. Is this the correct performance from a single raptor? This is connected via the Promise SATA controller on my Asus A8V Delxe Rev2.

Thanks
 
Burst means exactly what it says, therefore isn't an accurate way of comparing two drives on general performance. You need to look at average read/write performance.

The Raptor 36 gives around 60-65mb/sec read, which is similar to a modern 7200rpm drive, but it will have the edge on access times.
 
To be honest, the 36 Raptor has had its day now (Sorry).

The 74s still have a good performance edge over ordinary drives, but for anything exceptional you need to RAID0 them.

The 150s seem better again (havent had one of these yet; have had the others), but are hideously expensive.

I've gone for a Samsung Spinpoint P120 lately (to replace my 36 RAID0 & 74RAID0), which at £80 inc p&p costs less than a 36 Raptor and has similar performance on read speed (62Mb/s) with a much imroved capacity of 250Gb - its also MUCH quieter! As mentioned 7200rpm HDDs dont quite compare on the access times though.

Also as mentioned, the only comparison worth looking at is the Average Read/Write Access.

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Do you mean with the Via controller? I wanted to do this originally but could not find where to get the drivers from, I could only see drivers for the promise controller.

There seems to be a slight improvement over my old drive but I got this drive cheap (£40) so I guess it wasnt a complete loss.
 
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