Hard drive Benchmark Tool?

adam1v

adam1v

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After a few re-installs, a change of setups (from raid to non raid), my hard drive performance is still very poor when copying large files. I mean extremely poor, the whole computer freezes for 20-30 seconds at a time, it might take 5 minutes to copy a 700 mb file.

Is there any tool I can use to test my Samsung Spinpoint F1s as a benchmark (since HTUil doesnt find anything).

Im on the verge of throwing these out :(

Id like to be able to benchmark these, see an extremly poor performance graph and then throw them back with an RMA.

Any help is greatly appreciated
 
I will give this a try thank you.
Out of curiosity, (for anyone in the know), what should my expected Read/Write speeds be for the Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB Disk?
And should the speeds be fairly constant, i.e no dips to 3mb/s?
 
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wd green for comparison, I think it only runs at 5400rpm with these tests.

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these are SATA drives and not SATA, but I will look this up and post the benchmarks when I get home tonight.
Thanks for the help guys, its driving me mad :(
 
I always use HDTune for hard drive performance, the free one allows read tests, the pro versions also allows write and copy tests (write and copy tests are destructive to existing data).

A hard drive used as the operating system drive will give momentary slow reading in a benchmark, whereas a non-os drive should give a classic disk read profile as seen in screen shots above (ie starts high and curves down to a low point). Unless the drive is in a external USB hard drive enclosure in which case the USB speed is the bottleneck and the profile will then be flat.

See this webpage for some HDTune screenshots etc - http://www.mods-n-clocks.co.uk/?p=38

HDTune also has a useful 'screenshot' button to save a picture file of the window being viewed.
 
im having trouble booting from the USB stick, but I have managed to run the test/benchmarks which might help people more with more knowlege see whats going on.

I ran HD Tach twice just to make sure it was correct, and to get an average:

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This was the first HD Tune test, but I resized it too small, but you can just make out figures:

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The second:

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The Error scan didnt pick any problems up.

Looking at both these graphs from HD Tune, they are nothing like whats above, nor like any graphs what I've seen from other people.

Can anyone make any educated conclusions from these?

For the test, I decided to leave just the OS Disk plugged in, this is a newly created partition, which has been defragged etc.
 
Ironically I was testing the speeds using a better SATA cable so I've some benchmarks for exactly the same drive:

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I have two concerns looking at yours, the first is the access times seem slightly high, now it might be slightly higher due to my drives using NCQ which works when using AHCI however it wouldn't be that much, and then the drops seem a little be much at times.

Out of interest what are the specs for the rest of your PC?
 
Motherboard?

Couple of questions:

Got the latest BIOS?
Got the latest Motherboard drivers?
Tried a different Cable?
Tried a different Motherboard connector?
 
I've not tried swapping cables yet. The bios is up to date.
I've also not tried different sata ports either, I assume I won't need to reconfigure anything?
 
Nope, providing you use the standard ones linked to your motherboard chipset and not the extra ones they sometimes put on motherboards. Just trying to see if it is a bad connection to the drive casing the issues.
 
Ive just tried it in a differnt SATA mobo port, disabled my antivirus, and disabled windows side bar.

Now bare in mind, I have nothing else installed, nothing running in the background, this is a new OS install as of 2 days ago.


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