Post your hard drive benchmarks!

[silversurfer]

Not very impressive but it just has to be reliable really. Seagate 7200.7 x 3 & a 7200rpm Maxtor
Raid EIO 1680 Pci card with 2 IDE cables for the 4 drives


RC21 - that looks impressive

 

[frustin]

now all you need is two of the hdd's and raid0 them and then do another benchmark...before mine turn up tomorrow but i wont have time to set it all up to try it out much before the weekend.

 

[Scoobie Dave]

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

What strip size you using mate?

I think it would be helpful for anyone using a raid setup to state this also from now on.

 

[balls]

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

Now its outperforming my 3 disc raid 0 using the 2 platter 250gb

 

[RC21]

What strip size you using mate?

I think it would be helpful for anyone using a raid setup to state this also from now on.

Sorry mate - There is another screenshot (in another thread) with the Intel Raid controller settings but I didn't tag it on to this picture, it's 128KB

 

[Scoobie Dave]

Sorry mate - There is another screenshot (in another thread) with the Intel Raid controller settings but I didn't tag it on to this picture, it's 128KB

What OS are you running? Im still unsure which strip size is best for a quicker starting up OS. I only use Vista Ultimate 64. It would be helpful to know how big most of the OS files actually are. I know XP uses quite small files, but Vista64 is much, much larger.

Have you tried using any lower strip sizes, or does the 128k strip give the best boost for loading OS and game files (like BF2 maps).

Im currently using a 32k strip.

 

[RC21]

What OS are you running? Im still unsure which strip size is best for a quicker starting up OS. I only use Vista Ultimate 64. It would be helpful to know how big most of the OS files actually are. I know XP uses quite small files, but Vista64 is much, much larger.

Have you tried using any lower strip sizes, or does the 128k strip give the best boost for loading OS and game files (like BF2 maps).

Im currently using a 32k strip.

I'm running the same as you: Vista Ultimate 64Bit although I'm having some trouble getting some programs to play along....I have a brand new ipod touch that will only work with a 32Bit OS, so it's sat on my desk collecting dust at the moment.......

I didn't think it would be worth while (for me) to go that small, I contemplated 64KB but as I'm going to be doing a bit of everything on my computer - Music production, some video editing, games, office, etc I decided to stick with the default 128KB

 

[Scoobie Dave]

I'm running the same as you: Vista Ultimate 64Bit although I'm having some trouble getting some programs to play along....I have a brand new ipod touch that will only work with a 32Bit OS, so it's sat on my desk collecting dust at the moment.......

I didn't think it would be worth while (for me) to go that small, I contemplated 64KB but as I'm going to be doing a bit of everything on my computer - Music production, some video editing, games, office, etc I decided to stick with the default 128KB

I have a funny feeling 128k probably wont give you much of a speed boost to be honest. I have tried 16k, 32k and 64k. Personally I found that 32k seems to be the balance for a speedier OS/Apps and large maps etc loading times.

From what I know 128k is really only for huge files only.

 

[Dutch777]

2 X Seagate 7200.10 250MB in RAID0 New Single platter drives.

32k stripe size have tried other stripe sizes vista an xp noticed others are getting higher scores is this down to nforce4 controller compared to the intel ?

 

[allllec]

Not overly impressed.

Touché, My new 5000AAKS

im hoping its becuase its running in native ide mode and not ahci mode (ie no ncq etc)

oh well its only my data storage drive speed isnt important. just sheer size


Oh and guess at what 2 points i skipped tracks in media player

 

[helmutcheese]

Single Raptor, not quite as fast as on previous Mobo with Silicon Controler but getting better each bios/driver and this is in Vista anyhow not XP and not Raided in Vista yet.

And my WD My Book Prem ES 500GB.

 

[Clellandmc]

Both screenshots are from my fresh Vista install with 3 x WD5000AAKS although they seem to have deteriated a lot from the few hours between the tests. Oh and it's 64kb strip, if that's good or bad?

 

[megatron]

In my non-expert opinion I would say those results are underwhelming for a single drive let alone raid!

 

[Clellandmc]

Anything I can do to check the state of the array, and then to improve the speed?

 

[RaiderX]

my 2 Seagate 7200.10 single platter 160gb drives

that was with a 64kb strip

 

[megatron]

Anything I can do to check the state of the array, and then to improve the speed?

Make a new thread and wait for RPStewart to give u the answer IMO.

 

[balls]

Anything I can do to check the state of the array, and then to improve the speed?

download intel matrix storage manager,then you can turn off write back cache, will make a significant difference

 

[RaiderX]

download intel matrix storage manager,then you can turn off write back cache, will make a significant difference

i turned it on and it increased speed a lot, as you can see from my old post to new one

 

[sosrandom]

Heres my resulets from my WDC 5000AAKS, they seem reasonable, slower burst rate than my WD3200KS in HD Tune (same in HD Tach). But I've no idea what that means annyway so who cares
I've ordered another 500GB drive so i might raid them, if ive got enought space to backup my stuff onto the 320, 250 & 160.
Any ideas what improvement this would give in Average read?

Seems better than all my other sata drives

 

[frustin]

write-back enabled short

Quick benchmark before bed:

2 x 500Gig 32meg cache 7200.11 in raid 0 @ 64kB