Post your hard drive benchmarks!
- Thread starter Scoobie Dave
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I have 3 HDs in my PC.
1: Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM (IDE). Windows boots from this yet it is the worst performer of the three!
2: Maxtor 200GB SATA 7200RPM
3: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 SATA-II 32MB Cache
Wonder how much of a performance boost i would notice if i installed Windows on one of my other drives?
1: Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM (IDE). Windows boots from this yet it is the worst performer of the three!
2: Maxtor 200GB SATA 7200RPM
3: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 SATA-II 32MB Cache
Wonder how much of a performance boost i would notice if i installed Windows on one of my other drives?
4*640gb black drives, raid 0 array
raid 5 block the raid 0 array is backed up onto.
Feels exactly the same as a 3*300gb velociraptor raid 0 array that I spent the weekend fiddling about with for loading, etc and much quicker and transferring large files around the place and at £200 is far bit cheaper too.
Great thing about these drives is the noise they make, or serious lack of. I can't hear them unless I put my head in the case, next to them.
Soldato
A Brand spanking Sammy 500Gb F1.
The only use it has had is being installed into Vista with Disk Management before running HDTune on it. Tomorrow it will go with my other Sammy F1 in Raid 0. Will see how well these 2 puppies perform together.
The only use it has had is being installed into Vista with Disk Management before running HDTune on it. Tomorrow it will go with my other Sammy F1 in Raid 0. Will see how well these 2 puppies perform together.
Tomorrow it will go with my other Sammy F1 in Raid 0. Will see how well these 2 puppies perform together.
Probably something like this
New SSD is suprisingly quicker than either of my raid set ups
Soldato
2 x Sammy 500Gb F1's.
Significantly faster. Very impressed.
Significantly faster. Very impressed.
Don
RAID 0 (2x Seagate 500GB 7200.10)
Single Seagate 1TB 7200.11
The single 7200.11 is faster than 2 of the 7200.10 together, which is strange. Why's that? I didn't realise there's that much difference.
One question, is PCI Express x1 card a limiting factor in RAID speeds? Because the 1TB drive is directly connected to the motherboard, whilst the 2x500GBs are connected through a RAID card.
Single Seagate 1TB 7200.11
The single 7200.11 is faster than 2 of the 7200.10 together, which is strange. Why's that? I didn't realise there's that much difference.
One question, is PCI Express x1 card a limiting factor in RAID speeds? Because the 1TB drive is directly connected to the motherboard, whilst the 2x500GBs are connected through a RAID card.
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Annoying drop in performance between 43GB & 50GB, which happens every time, so it's not just something accessing the drive.
How many of you would RMA (under the DSA) a new drive based on this, with all other diagnostics passing ok?
Soldato
Heres my first raid 0 attempt, 3x250gb wd re3's 32kb stripe.
Not turned the back writing thing off yet, do i need the hitachi tool to do that?
Looks pretty fast that m8. Be even better if you can smooth out that sequential read.
There's a couple of questions that spring to mind there. Are 3 drives faster than 2 in RAID0 and how much difference to performance does the stripe size make?
Got my 320GB WD3200AAKS today and i plan to use for my game installs only
when i benchmarked it i noticed the access time is pretty high at 15ms+
i have AAM set to the maximum so thats not it
Also the CPU Usage with HDTune is through the roof
im guessing i have no grounds to RMA
when i benchmarked it i noticed the access time is pretty high at 15ms+
i have AAM set to the maximum so thats not it
Also the CPU Usage with HDTune is through the roof
im guessing i have no grounds to RMA
Soldato
Just replaced 2 x 250gb Samsungs;
With 2 x 640gb Caviar Black;
Pretty pleased with that upgrade, lots more storage and faster in all areas.
With 2 x 640gb Caviar Black;
Pretty pleased with that upgrade, lots more storage and faster in all areas.
Those are questions i have wondered too but as this is my first array i cannot answer. 3 drives to me seem very fast to me and 32kb was suggested to me as the best stripe for an OS with game files.
As to the sequentail read i have no idea i have tried ftool to tun off back write but it failed to see my drives, im not fussed its fast where i want it to be anyway.
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Soldato
Interesting about the stripe size.
Its the first time I have done this and I chose the size as 128kb.
Can someone shed some light or provide a link to explain what importance stripe sizes are please?
Its the first time I have done this and I chose the size as 128kb.
Can someone shed some light or provide a link to explain what importance stripe sizes are please?
