Post your hard drive benchmarks!

Did this for a giggle as I,ve never looked at raid before plus I was bored.
Surprised it let me do it as thier different size drives/slightly different models.
Explains why the burst is low on it I guess.
A Seagate 7200.9 and 7200.10 togeather, raid 0 on a the gigabyte ds3 controller :p

 
RAID 5 on an ICH8R based board with 4 WD5000AAKS drives, 64KB stripe block.

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Was intending to retest after installing intel matrix storage driver but its not as simple to install as I first thought.

100% cpu utilization is a glitch from having HDtach's graphs open while benching HDtune
 
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For those interested -

C2D 6700 at 3.3 on an Asus P5W DH (i975x)

Os drive in raid 1 - 2x 500Gb WD AAKS - Write back cache on volume disabled

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Os drive raid 1 - 2 x 500Gb WD AAKS - Write back cache on volume enabled

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Games drive raid 0 - 2 x 500Gb WD AAKS - write back cache on volume disabled

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Games drive raid 0 - 2 x 500Gb WD AAKS - write back cache on volume enabled

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Thoughts?
 
On the info page it says that I'm currently running both my harddrives in ATA/100 (Mode 5) but my harddrives support ATA/133 (Mode 6) I've looked in the BIOS and couldn't see if there is any way of changing this. Im running the 2004 BOIS for the P5WDH?
 
balls said:
Am I going crazy or is this impossible, there are many people using 2x raptors and getting about 115mb/s, and secondly I thought raptors were limited by s-ataI and thus 150mb/s.
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150 each as they are separate drives and cables.
 
Hi there,

Just installed a 750GB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000. Here's the results from a quick and dirty test:

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The average read speed is 50% faster than my old 160GB Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 which is still a nippy drive:

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Thanks for looking.
 
PiKe said:
RAID 5 on an ICH8R based board with 4 WD5000AAKS drives, 64KB stripe block.

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That is outrageously quick :eek: - especially considering it a Raid 5 - what mobo is that (onboard controller right?) - any idea what they did in Raid 0?
 
cavemanoc said:
That is outrageously quick :eek: - especially considering it a Raid 5 - what mobo is that (onboard controller right?) - any idea what they did in Raid 0?
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The machine was bought (and specced out) for RAID 5 so RAID 0 has not been tested.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA965P-DS4, it's the ICH8R controller that's the key I believe.
 
cavemanoc said:
That is outrageously quick :eek: - especially considering it a Raid 5 - what mobo is that (onboard controller right?) - any idea what they did in Raid 0?
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Intel raid controllers are very good, even the one integrated into the southbridge packs a punch.
 
lay-z-boy said:
Intel raid controllers are very good, even the one integrated into the southbridge packs a punch.
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You're not kidding - I've got 4x15k4 Scsi cheetahs in Raid 0 on a dedicated Pci-e controller and I'm only seeing 160mb/s :( - I guess it's time to give up (or upgrade to SAS..... ;) )
 
Hitachi 80gig deskstar (7200rpm / 8mb) x4 on nforce4 RAID 0

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Do these speeds look about right ? thanks

how do you enable write back cache as someone else has?
 
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Maybe this explains my slowing booting up times (5 minutes) and loading of applications. Is my HDD on it's last legs?

Maxtor 250GB - SATA 2 - 7200rpm

 
Hey Duchy0, them speeds are really slow for the drive, maybe needs de-fragging?
How come my Hitachi Deskstar 7200/8mb 80gb drives which I bought from OcUK a while back & were advertised as sata2 yet only have the option of sata1 in nforce4/device mgr, yet the Hitachi Cinemastar 7200/8mb 80gb recently bought has the option of sata2 in nforce4/device mgr?
The Deskstar & Cinemastar look identical too.

Is the nforce4/device mgr reporting the sata generation wrong or is the Deskstar really sata1 & OcUK claimed them to be sata2 in error?
 
lay-z-boy said:
I have been running quad raid on the same drives on my nf4 for over a year now.

Here are my results.

I also posted how to do the tricks to get it running at its best here. :)
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ooh thanks dude, wow did not know these old drives could go that fast. Will get tuning...

How come my hitachi deskstar drives only allow sata1 when they have the same model number as yours? yet my newer hitachi cinimaster allows sata2
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You need to download a tool off hitachi's website called FTOOL iirc, burn it to a disk and boot with one drive plugged in at a time set to standard boot mode (where you don't need a disk driver for windows install) and boot off the CD.
It allows you to tweak the hard drives firmware.

Chance acoustics to max performance
SATA mode to SATAII
cache mode to enhanced

will give a good boost to the drives :)
 
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