Barracuda 7200.11 benchmarks

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Just wondering if there are any benchmarks yet, or anything to prove/disprove the crazy transfer rates they have been claiming?
 
I've not seen a true .11 benchmark yet but this is from one of the new single platter 250Gb 7200.10s, it's the same platter as the .11s will have so I'd expect a similar speed.

I've seen a couple from the same drive on Storage Review which are slightly faster but they were in Japanese so I couldn't tell what the rest of the setup was.
 
And not forgetting 2 of them in Raid0 :D

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;)
 
I still think that something's holding you back there, either the write back caching isn't turned on in the Matrix Storage Manager or Seagate is still using the 3.AAK firmware on those drives which seems to be pretty naff for RAID0.
 
I also still think that something is totally wrong, unless seagate consequently are
"20 MB/S more dishonnest" than there competitors, and I don´t know if this is in
their tradition or not, but like said in another thread, spec´ed 110 mb/s should at
least give a 160-170 mb/S in raid-0, the seek time, significant or not, is nothing
to write home about either, guess I would pick up some raid-edition WD insteadt
if I had to bye today, but lets hope it can be fixed,....
 
Does anyone have a picture of what the single platter 7200.10 looks like? My 3x250GB 7200.10s are the standard large ones, I recently installed a new 7200.10 250GB that was much slimmer in a mates new build. Are those the single platter ones?
 
Yup, the single platter ones are 3/4" thick as opposed to the normal 1" thick casing used in the rest of the range. I saw a picture of the underside of one last week but I can't remember where, what did strike me though was how small the PCB was - probably only a third of the area of the underside of the drive.
 
But i suppose that the 7200.11 drives won't go anywhere near the 110mb/s promised, right?
Looking for some better harddrive performance, tempted to go for a pair of these in RAID, will it give any tangible benefit to have 2 of them, or will it only show in benchmarks?
I have 1 x 500GB 7200.10 currently :)
 
rpstewart said:
I still think that something's holding you back there, either the write back caching isn't turned on in the Matrix Storage Manager or Seagate is still using the 3.AAK firmware on those drives which seems to be pretty naff for RAID0.
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How do you check to see if the 'write back caching' is on or off?
 
easyrider said:
@ scoobs

Just click on the drive in the Intel matrix storage console.
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Sorry to hijack only I read the comment about write-back caching, and went to check mine in the Intel matrix storage console - it was off. So I turned it on but in device manager, it still says it's off. Even more confusingly it says the device does not allow its write cache setting to be modified yet the box is selectable. I didn't want to tick it until I had checked whether you guys thought I could roger my RAID array by selecting it after it's already told me it's not selectable?

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Intel matrix storage console - seems to be enabled?:

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