Post your hard drive benchmarks!

[blackninja]

3 x seagate 250gb (410AS) @ 64KB with write back cache on

Mmmm - I got 3 of these on route to me right now What mobo/controller are these on?

 

[Trifid]

2x 250GB WD SE16 in RAID0, 16k. What's up with the burst speed?

 

[Breezy]

2x 250GB WD SE16 in RAID0, 16k. What's up with the burst speed?

whats up with all of it looks rather on the slow side, what controler are you using? stripe size?

 

[Trifid]

NVraid on a NF4 chipset. 16k (windows boot, games, etc drive.)

 

[Space Monkey]

3 x seagate 250gb (410AS) @ 64KB with write back cache on

Do you find that with your h/d's setup as they are that windows etc is faster/snappier, i.e aside from just benchmarking?

What spec are you running with? Mobo, Raid controller?

I only ask as I am soon to buy some new h/drives and have heard that these are the fastest 7,200's especially in raid 0?

 

[blackninja]

My new disks arrived this morning ...

 

[Breezy]

My new disks arrived this morning ...

try downloading intel matrix storage manager and enableing write back caching also use hd tach should increase it buy 30mb/s i recon

 

[blackninja]

try downloading intel matrix storage manager and enableing write back caching also use hd tach should increase it buy 30mb/s i recon

Write back cacheing already enabled M8 ... hdtach shows an improvement though

 

[Breezy]

very nice m8, almost as fast as the one on the previous page

 

[esiemi]

My first RAID

2 x WD2500AAKS http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-133-WD

on RAID 0, 32KB strip size
HD Tack Long(32mb)



HD Tune



and with write-back cache enabled




what you think?

 

[Breezy]

thats pretty good i think all the manufactureres are following seagate for those drives to be that fast they must be single platter

 

[chrissss]

Top left, my 320gig seagate (7200/16)
top right 500gig spinpoint (7200/16)
bottom left 750gig spinpoint (7200/32) external Esata drive

access time seems low on all 3...

 

[MattandJet]

bottom left 750gig spinpoint (7200/32) external Esata drive

on HDTune, what does it say on the "info" tab for Buffer/Cache size? (Im wondering because my 32mb cache still says zero

 

[MattandJet]

Seagate 7200.11 500GB/32Mb

Raptor 150GB/16Mb:

My only concerns is the bandwidth of the seagate is a little low (its a SATA2) and that the raptor only has 8.2ms seek when it says on the description:

- Capacity: 150GB
- Cache: 16MB
- Interface: SATA
- Spin Speed: 10000RPM
- Seek Time: 4.6ms
- Warranty: 5 Years

 

[chrissss]

on HDTune, what does it say on the "info" tab for Buffer/Cache size? (Im wondering because my 32mb cache still says zero

same.

it says 0.

 

[tatts]

2 Samsung spinpoints in raid0 (80GB), Not the best but a good enough boost over a single drive for me

 

[Talrinys]

My Samsung IDE 16GB Drive

Oh, and it's solid state

Very nice, you feeling a nice performance in windows in general?

 

[Imy]

Astonishing, it's a shame they cost so much!

£550

Yeah its an expensive controller, there was a bit of a premium at the time for PCI-E/SAS.

But you do get a lot of bang with the latest 800MHz Intel IOP processor and 512MB onboard DDR2 for caching.

There's also a further premium due to Areca always releasing cards which are faster than competitors' equivalents which use similar components.

The support isn't great though but performance is top notch.

 

[Imy]

My only concerns is the bandwidth of the seagate is a little low (its a SATA2) and that the raptor only has 8.2ms seek when it says on the description:

Don't worry that seek time looks normal judging by what others are getting.

SATA2 just means the interface it uses is capable of up to nearly 300MB/s, the device itself won't achieve anywhere near that. When WD released the revised versions of the Raptors, they didn't bother with SATA2 as there was little benefit other than from a marketing perspective.

 

[Devious]

Samsung 750/32