Post your hard drive benchmarks!

rpstewart · 10 Oct 2007 at 11:42

Which part of "not helping" do you not understand????

megatron · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:16

Any real world changes with the 7200.11?

Deluxe1 · 10 Oct 2007 at 13:20

Havent really put them to test yet i just banged them into my old shuttle system to give them a quick run,building a new system tomorrow so will know more then.

Thorne · 10 Oct 2007 at 17:23

2 Hitachi Deskstars T7K500 in Raid 0 on X38-DQ6

helmutcheese · 10 Oct 2007 at 17:34

I think I need show you a nice smooth Single Raptor X (cant Raid0 for now as of PC case+8800Ultra hitting HDD Cage)

I need try after all downloads complete (Im nearly as fast as previous Mobo with Silicon Control as of new Bios/drivers on this NF6).

Teaf · 16 Oct 2007 at 09:54

Two month old Seagate 7200.10 80GB SATA HDD:

PiKe · 16 Oct 2007 at 10:00

There's something very wrong there.

rpstewart · 16 Oct 2007 at 10:45

CPU usage is huge, that and the slow speed says the drive is running in PIO mode. Check device manager and see if it'll let you change the mode, failing that right click on the controller and pick uninstall then reboot and let Windows re-install it, that should kick it back to a sensible UDMA mode.

balls · 16 Oct 2007 at 10:55

rpstewart said:
This is not helping me fight the temptation to see how fast eight of these in RAID5 would be.

Thinking the same thing :S

XysteR · 16 Oct 2007 at 13:12

I long for the day when i can have a 5 TB ramdrive!

El Jimben · 16 Oct 2007 at 17:27

Do my benchies look ok? I know next to nothing about HDs so some input from people in the know would be appreciated

rpstewart · 16 Oct 2007 at 17:52

The underlying speed looks OK but the traces are quite variable. Was there a lot going on on the machine when you ran the benchmarks?

El Jimben · 16 Oct 2007 at 19:35

Not really no, I just ran the HD Tach bench again and the results were similar, is this bad?

ray · 16 Oct 2007 at 19:37

Here's my HD Tune benchmark for the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 drive:

Scoobie Dave · 16 Oct 2007 at 19:45

ray said:
Here's my HD Tune benchmark for the Seagate 500GB 7200.11 drive:

Have you taken off the little jumper off your hd? Only reason I ask is because your burst speed should be a lot higher. Take it off and run another benchmark.

ray · 16 Oct 2007 at 19:54

Haha, I didn't even realise there was a jumper on the hard disk, so it's probably still there. Thanks for the tip, Scoobie Dave! I'll give it a try later on.

frustin · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:30

do it nowwww.

Bin Boy · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:37

yeah and more the HD window over to the left or right abit!

RC21 · 16 Oct 2007 at 20:55

2 x Seagate 7200.10 in RAID 0 (ST3250410AS) The 250MB Single platter drives.

Long Bench (32MB)

Thanks to rpstewart and balls for the help

RC

ray · 16 Oct 2007 at 21:00

Scoobie Dave said:
Have you taken off the little jumper off your hd? Only reason I ask is because your burst speed should be a lot higher. Take it off and run another benchmark.

Wow, that jumper is definitely the smallest one I've ever seen! I had to use a paper clip to get it out because the tweezers I had were too big. Here's an updated HD Tune benchmark:

As you mentioned, the burst rate is much higher now.

Thanks again!