Post your hard drive benchmarks!

[this_is_gav]

Are those the newer 16MB cache ones?

Nope, the 8mb ones (already had 1 8mb sitting spare, so just bought another - they were replacing a 2x36gb Raptors which went to work).

 

[Chronictank]

 

[silversurfer]

Samsung SP1614N /8meg/ ATA133 / 7200rpm

WD1200 & SP1203N 64k stripe / 2meg / PCI Raid AP1680 /7200rpm

Not great is it

 

[Subliminal Aura]

4x Western Digital WD2500KS Sata II 16Mb cache, RAID 0, Intel i975X onboard sata raid controller:

That is bloody sweet what motheboard is it ? and how the heck do you guys get such high burst speeds (edit: very small cluster sizes ?)

 

[Mr Footlong]

Asus P5W64 Pro motherboard. All you have to do is switch on write caching basically iirc on the array within the Matrix Storage Manager software. default cluster size used when creating the RAID 0 array in the DOS DOS raid manager

 

[FreeStream]

Seagate 320GB 7200.10 SATA2 16 MB cache, NForce 410 onboard SATA2 controller.

*image*

Is that the fastest single drive in this thread?

Aye, that be complete rubbish, no single HD can manage that! RAID Raptors only just gets there.

 

[Subliminal Aura]

Asus P5W64 Pro motherboard. All you have to do is switch on write caching basically iirc on the array within the Matrix Storage Manager software. default cluster size used when creating the RAID 0 array in the DOS DOS raid manager

Yup I did some snooping around and found the ICH7R chipset shockingly fast - I'm going to check what chipsets I own I may have one aready.

Nice one

 

[lay-z-boy]

That is bloody sweet what motheboard is it ? and how the heck do you guys get such high burst speeds (edit: very small cluster sizes ?)

Burst speeds on Intel boards tend to be mad due to the burst coming from the cache on the ICH chip, therefore, the max bandwidth is that of the ICH to MCH interconnect.

 

[silversurfer]

WD1200 & SP1203N 64k stripe / 2meg / PCI Raid AP1680 /7200rpm

Not great is it

Slightly better after changing stripe and cluster size to 16k

It decompresses a 300meg RAR to 685meg of 4000 files in 27 seconds which seems good to me

 

[J1234]

Western Digital Raptor 36GB 8mb cache, haven't done my data disk though, the results are better than I thought.

Edit: Corrr 48 degrees.

 

[megatron]

I havent touched ncq, but I uncheck "allow indexing" as I remember it was a tip somewhere.

Maxtor diamond max 250Gb sata II 16Mb 1 partition.


Samsung Spinpoint, 3 partitions OS, games, files 200Gb sata II 8Mb


Western digital pata wd120jb 120Gb 16Mb 1 partition

 

[hp7909]

This with a 40GB Seagate PATA HD...

 

[Duke]

Got a new Samsung 320GB 16MB on its way Monday, to replace the Raptor 74 and Seagate 160GB. Decided to go for a quieter system, so am replacing them with a single quiet drive, but still quite quick too. Will post benchmarks when I get it

 

[Scoobie Dave]

This with a 40GB Seagate PATA HD...

Goes to show how far HD's have come.

 

[silversurfer]

Yea its an external setup so a wise combo since the connection is probably the limiting factor mostly

7 year old 60 gig drive now reduced to 33 gig from bad sectors

 

[cavemanoc]

It's official - I hate HDTune:

4*72Gb 15k.4 Seagate Scsi Cheetahs - Dell Perc 4e/dc - Raid 0

HDTune

HDTach

Amazing the difference considering the rig is unchanged!

 

[silversurfer]

How much do those drives cost, looks good either way. Unbelievable access time

 

[lay-z-boy]

4*72Gb 15k.4 Seagate Scsi Cheetahs - Dell Perc 4e/dc - Raid 0

What strip size, mate?

 

[Smirnoff]

2x 74 GB Raptors 16mb cache in stripping raid with 64k strip size

Any idea why my benchmarks are so low ?

Specs are, Core2 6600, Crucial 4GB Tenth Anniversary Kit, Evga 680i, 800 GTX

Thanks for any help

 

[lay-z-boy]

LOL

Stripe size?
read caching & ncq disabled?
correct set speed?
b0rked drivers?
fubared hdtune?
bad bench?

could be a large number of things!