Post your hard drive benchmarks!

Dano · 1 Mar 2007 at 14:42

My burst > all

Scoobie Dave · 1 Mar 2007 at 15:30

Dano said:
My burst > all

That burst rate cant be right surely?

Dano · 1 Mar 2007 at 15:36

I'd guess not, however I did bench it several times with similar results...

netby · 1 Mar 2007 at 16:02

quote rpstewart

"Do you have NCQ enabled on those drives? Sometimes turning it off can give better performance and it might sort the flat part at the start of the trace."

well I think so,cause i just installed the SO without changing anithyng
this feature must come enable from factory,right?

how can I disable it?

thank´s

rpstewart · 1 Mar 2007 at 16:16

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

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.

JayMax · 1 Mar 2007 at 17:02

Dano said:
My burst > all

What stripe size are you using there?

Dano · 1 Mar 2007 at 19:42

JayMax said:
What stripe size are you using there?

128k

WoZZeR · 1 Mar 2007 at 23:11

Similar Burst Speed here, this is either with or without writeback caching I think and the one below it is the opposite, nonsensical english I know.

All I have to do is remember which is which.

Tarty · 2 Mar 2007 at 22:43

Diamond max 10, 250gb 16mb cache

seagate 7200.10 320gb 16mb cache

dunno why my cpu useage is so high, and why my access times are so slow....

wizardmaxx · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:20

The unstoppable speed of RAM Drives :eek:

Tarty · 3 Mar 2007 at 09:35

wizardmaxx said:
The unstoppable speed of RAM Drives

o.....m....g....

cavemanoc · 3 Mar 2007 at 10:24

wizardmaxx said:
The unstoppable speed of RAM Drives

So that's what we're supposed to do with 4x2Gb sticks under Vista 64 - Sweeeeeet!

Take that level load times! Can you protect the RAM drive on power down or is it Hibernate or better only? (And what are you using?)

Edit: Even helps out your CPU - bargain

wizardmaxx · 3 Mar 2007 at 11:37

Just a bit of software that emulates a section of system memory as a scsi hard drive, so no power....no data.

jaykay · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:27

that could be good for virtual memory instead of being on the hard drive

Bane · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:42

Samsung Spinpoint P120 250GB 8MB cache. Quiet mode enabled via Samsung's hutil software. Command Queuing disabled

JayMax · 3 Mar 2007 at 12:48

The difference after adding a third disk to my Raid 0 array earlier today, got a fourth drive on the way as well:

Red = 2 drives
Blue = 3 drives

Duke · 3 Mar 2007 at 22:09

Western Digital Raptor 74 (SATA1, 8MB Cache)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB (SATA1, 8MB Cache)

Nice results on your new raptor 150, Scoobie Dave, but the temp seems a bit high :eek:

I took a spray duster to mine and they dropped by 5c each.

Ak!ta · 3 Mar 2007 at 22:33

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.