Post your hard drive benchmarks!

ghgh · 12 Aug 2007 at 10:50

2 x 80gb maxtor diomondmax 9s in raid 0 on an onboard raid controller. One disk has 2mb cache, the other 8mb so its not too great.

Zarf · 13 Aug 2007 at 20:42

So your mate gets 200meg/s ?

Yes

Look at Netvypers graph on the first page, and he's added a couple of drives since then, which increases throughput.

With 3.AAK i can't even break ~100MB in RAID0 with 4 drives. Bursts are fine (>400MB/s) so it's not PCIe limiting me.

Have a look at this page of an x-bit labs defragging article, and what happens to the 500GB seagate 7200.10's when AHCI is turned on (AHCI is needed for SATA raid)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/defragmentation-perfectdisk_5.html#sect0

Basically the seagate drives all get slower, and my model of drive gets a LOT slower with it enabled. Something is really screwed at Seagate.

Thorne · 15 Aug 2007 at 09:45

2 x Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 500GB SATA-II 16MB in Raid 0

rpstewart · 15 Aug 2007 at 10:18

That looks a little slow for an Intel RAID setup. Have you checked that all the caching is enabled in the Matrix Storage utlility?

Thorne · 15 Aug 2007 at 13:57

RPstewart I tend to not enable the cache at the moment while still testing my new systems so I dont risk data corruption, but I have just run the test with cache enable to see the difference

rpstewart · 15 Aug 2007 at 14:08

That looks far more like it.

HEADRAT · 15 Aug 2007 at 14:46

lay-z-boy said:
Spec in sig.

Blimey that's quick, what spec (you've chnaged your sig).

marc2003 · 15 Aug 2007 at 15:19

my lowly 250gb samsung sata drive....

silversurfer · 15 Aug 2007 at 21:22

^^ Looks a lot like the 120gb ide samsung

Im going to try and make a Raid 10 or 01 I think with 3 of these seagates and also the lower maxtor , hopefully it wont slow things down too much

fornowagain · 23 Aug 2007 at 02:18

2 x Raptors on a IP35 Pro. Latest 7.6 Intel drivers, with write back cache enabled.

allllec · 23 Aug 2007 at 05:02

Has anybody Raid0'd any average 80gb or similar Sata drives? so cheap im woundering if its worth it.

ta

alec

rick827 · 23 Aug 2007 at 09:17

fornowagain said:
2 x Raptors on a IP35 Pro. Latest 7.6 Intel drivers, with write back cache enabled. The bust is an anomaly with HD Tach, worth a laugh though.

ouch that raid really nerfed your access times. Do you still find it quicker than a single disk?

lay-z-boy · 23 Aug 2007 at 12:00

HEADRAT said:
Blimey that's quick, what spec (you've chnaged your sig).

5 80GB Hitachi SATAII drives in raid 0 on ICH9 (P5K Del)

Cost me very little

fornowagain · 23 Aug 2007 at 20:05

rick827 said:
ouch that raid really nerfed your access times. Do you still find it quicker than a single disk?

Sorry you've lost me, how is 8.3ms nerfed?

Single 74Gb Raptor 16Mb vs 2 on ICH9R Raid 0

hp7909 · 25 Aug 2007 at 06:20

USB vs eSATA

Icy Box External Enclosure IB-360AStUS

Got a new mobo with eSATA...

USB

eSATA

HD inside is a (very) old Maxtor 160GB SATA1.

megatron · 26 Aug 2007 at 03:51

hp7909 said:
Got a new mobo with eSATA...

Looks like it makes a lot of difference, probably full speed for that HD.

Bloodust · 26 Aug 2007 at 10:46

Raptor and maxtor Sata I

smids · 27 Aug 2007 at 00:37

Edited.

helmutcheese · 27 Aug 2007 at 01:07

Anyone got HD-TACH 3.0 to work in Vista64 ?

P.S, Smids, dont run Torrents while benching yuor Raid set up

smids · 28 Aug 2007 at 22:30

Edited.