Post your hard drive benchmarks!

On average how big are games/applications/windows vista64 OS files? Only reason I ask is because im trying different strip sizes and im trying to find out which one is the quickest and best suited for my needs. . .

Im currenly experimenting with a 16k strip.
 
Seagate 1TB Drive.

4xWD250gb (IDE) Been running for 3.5 years in Music server.

HDTune_Benchmark_WDC_WD2500JB-53EVA0.png


One drive failed and had to be replaced with:

HDTune_Benchmark_WDC_WD2500PB-00FBA0.png


1 Seagate 1TB Drive to replace them all

Currently running on an old Asus A7N8X-E (SATA1) Windows XP (AMD XP 2400)

HDTune_Benchmark_ST31000340AS.png


Also I have a Asrock 939Dual
With a 300gb Maxtor
HDTune_Benchmark_Maxtor_6B300S0.png



Hope the stats are usefull to someone ;-)
 
There's nothing wrong with what's normally the minimum speed - the speed at the 100% mark. There is, however, something using the disk on a regular basis which is causing some I/O contention and hence the regular dips in the graph.
 
raidstripehs6.jpg


2x36GB Raptors WD SATA I 16MB Cache W.D. Raptors in RAID 0

raidmirrorem4.jpg


2x500GB AAKS WD SATA II 16MB Cache drives in RAID 1 (<-with an external backup solution - I don't even know why have bought two of these and mirrored them. I might destroy the array and sell one)..

edit - could anybody confirm if this is roughly what I should be getting? I am using an Asus AM2 sct M2N-E motherboard, and using an onboard RAID controller.
 
Last edited:
Greenlizard0 said:
raidstripehs6.jpg


2x36GB Raptors WD SATA I 16MB Cache W.D. Raptors in RAID 0

raidmirrorem4.jpg


2x500GB AAKS WD SATA II 16MB Cache drives in RAID 1 (<-with an external backup solution - I don't even know why have bought two of these and mirrored them. I might destroy the array and sell one)..

edit - could anybody confirm if this is roughly what I should be getting? I am using an Asus AM2 sct M2N-E motherboard, and using an onboard RAID controller.
Click to expand...

That's very slow mate, have you got the write back cache enabled?

What strip size you using?
 
helmutcheese said:
Yes I was going to say thats Raptor raid is slow, obv aint a PCI bus with 200 burst though.
Click to expand...

Hmm...I think for a little bit both drives were being accessed - shall I run them again with everything turned off?

Edit - I ran both tests again and came up with almost identical results.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom