Post your hard drive benchmarks!

Scoobie Dave · 23 Feb 2007 at 19:41

Ok, hard drives are one of the slowest computer components. Lets see how yours compares. . .

Tell us model, make and specs including buffer size, interface, RPM, and RAID configuration if applicable.

Then, post a benchmark using:

HD Tune 2.54: Grab me here!
Or
Hd Tach 3.0 Grab me here!

Here's my effort so far:

74GB Raptor 8mb cache / sata I / 10,000rpm

320GB Seagate Barracuda 16mb cache / sata II / 7,200rpm

Scoobie Dave · 1 Mar 2007 at 00:02

150GB Raptor, faster than my old 74GB (8mb cache!)

Scoobie Dave · 1 Mar 2007 at 15:30

Dano said:
My burst > all

That burst rate cant be right surely?

Scoobie Dave · 1 Mar 2007 at 16:24

rpstewart said:
Normally you can do it from the properties of the SATA controllers in Device Manager.

Might have to give that a go myself and see if it makes any difference.

Scoobie Dave · 3 Mar 2007 at 22:48

Duke said:
Nice results on your new raptor 150, Scoobie Dave, but the temp seems a bit high I took a spray duster to mine and they dropped by 5c each.

Yeah, I have more airflow now and temps are around 42c for the Raptor. That screeny was also with 4 HD's in my case and I have gone back down to 3 again now which helps.

Scoobie Dave · 10 Mar 2007 at 12:35

Scoobie Dave said:
150GB Raptor, faster than my old 74GB (8mb cache!)

Blimely my Raptor was running at 52c :eek:

Now that I have moved the Raptor to a different drive bay it's running at 34c!

Scoobie Dave · 17 Mar 2007 at 12:43

hp7909 said:
This with a 40GB Seagate PATA HD...

Goes to show how far HD's have come.

Scoobie Dave · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:36

JaseUK said:
PEAK II Xtreme2 200X USB 2.0 Flash Drive 4GB

Actually I have just ordered a new Barracuda 7200.10, 320GB

I found it's better to use Flash Memory Toolkit to measure performace. I found HD Tune gave me false readings for my flash card.

Scoobie Dave · 30 Mar 2007 at 16:44

Fisha said:
mine says they have ncq, what is it? should it be on or off and how do u use it lol

I'd like to know how you can turn ncq on/off as well. . .

Any ideas anyone?

Scoobie Dave · 25 May 2007 at 16:34

Anyone got a Hitachi 7K1000 1000GB to bench?

Scoobie Dave · 4 Jun 2007 at 00:38

Still no Hitachi 7K1000 results?

Scoobie Dave · 19 Jun 2007 at 23:14

Well Splattered said:
Thanks to this post I purchased 8gb and Vista64 just to abuse the ramdisk facility.

Not benchmarked any games yet, but here is my 6gb ramdrive.

Lol at them transfer rates.

Scoobie Dave · 1 Jul 2007 at 23:07

Still waiting to see how well one of those new TB hd's perform. . .

Scoobie Dave · 7 Jul 2007 at 08:39

MikeC said:
Hi all !
Been a lurker for some time.
Anyway, heres a recently aquired hdd - enjoy. Its attached via a Promise sata controller.
Its a Hitachi 7K1000 32Mb cache 7,200 rpm

Nice.

Is that the the TB version?

Scoobie Dave · 7 Jul 2007 at 13:14

MikeC said:
yep, its the 1TB (or 1000GB as per the dropdown box in the image)

Quite impressed with the speed of it, not bad. Not as fast as a Raptor obviously but not that far off too.

Scoobie Dave · 17 Jul 2007 at 21:04

With all these new TB hd's coming on the market soon will be interesting to see how they compete against each other, not to mention the smaller capacity drives too!

Scoobie Dave · 3 Aug 2007 at 16:17

Scoobie Dave said:
With all these new TB hd's coming on the market soon will be interesting to see how they compete against each other, not to mention the smaller capacity drives too!

Come on people post them TB bench's

Scoobie Dave · 6 Aug 2007 at 14:35

weescott said:
On a P5K Deluxe and Vista 64 Ultimate:

That's really good for a 7200k drive. :cool:

Will be interesting to see how good the other makes do as well.

Scoobie Dave · 5 Sep 2007 at 00:15

Just had to arrange a RMA with my Raptor as I have found out its got loads of bad sectors on it :mad:

I knew something was up with it though and its been doing my head in trying work out what the problem was over the last few days. When I was in Vista my Raptor would all of a sudden just disconnect itself, like it could not access properly. The access light on my case would stay on constant and the only way of clearing it would be to turn the pc off completely to let the hd spin up again.

Hopefully the RMA service with WD is good, I have a feeling it is (fingers crossed). I chose the 'Advance Replacement' option with them.

I will have to bench the new Raptor when it comes, would funny if it was faster than my old one!

Scoobie Dave · 5 Sep 2007 at 10:09

I love the performance of them WD Caviar SE16 500GB HD's, nice drive for the money and not too far off Raptor speeds.