Post your hard drive benchmarks!

fishfishfish · 22 Dec 2008 at 18:07

From my Dell XPS M1330 250GB drive running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.02 seconds = 55.03 MB/sec

And the SD card (a Veho 8GB ultra fast SDHC):

/dev/mmcblk0p1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 40 MB in 3.04 seconds = 13.17 MB/sec

dirtydog · 22 Dec 2008 at 18:11

A[L]C;13136798 said:
Any ideas?

Either knackered or stuck in the wrong mode, eg. PIO 1. Possibly due to a dodgy cable.

fishfishfish · 22 Dec 2008 at 21:29

Here are the stats from a few of the drives in my Linux boxes. Think I need to get some RAID, and the other stats here leave me feeling inadequate.

Single 74GB Raptor (WDC WD740GD-00FLA0)

/dev/sdb1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 206 MB in 3.02 seconds = 68.24 MB/sec

300GB Maxtor Sata (Maxtor 6V300F0)

/dev/sdc1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 200 MB in 3.02 seconds = 66.31 MB/sec

160GB Western Digital Sata (WDC WD1600JS-41MVB1)

/dev/sda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 182 MB in 3.01 seconds = 60.49 MB/sec

Seagate 300GB sata (ST3320620AS)

/dev/sda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 220 MB in 3.02 seconds = 72.73 MB/sec
debian:/home/matt# hdparm -i /dev/sda1

Seagate 300GB IDE

/dev/hda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 180 MB in 3.03 seconds = 59.44 MB/sec

fishfishfish · 28 Dec 2008 at 19:40

There's a 250GB Seagate Barracuda ES.2 (the enterprise version of the 7200.11) in my Proliant ML115 quad Opty. The disk is very quick for a single disk:

/sbin/hdparm -t /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing buffered disk reads: 200MB in 1.97 seconds = 101.72MB/sec

Quite fancy getting another one to Raid 0 them, however, the 250GB ones are around £50-55 each. Makes these cheap Proliants look even more of a bargain.

NikolaiDante · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:00

Hi Chaps
I'm new to the forum but I thought I'd post my HDD benchmark. This is for a 3 x Raptor RAID 0 array using an ARC1212 RAID controller.

fishfishfish · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:02

Nice!

NikolaiDante · 28 Dec 2008 at 21:41

I forgot to put the rest of the rig in the signature. So here is it:

GolfBryan · 28 Dec 2008 at 22:09

Hello

I am new to the forum so thought I would post my benchmarks. I have a 300GB Velociraptor, 1TB Spinpoint F1 and an old 320GB Hitachi Drive. Here is my results:

Let me know if they are any good? Cheers.

snowdog · 28 Dec 2008 at 23:31

http://wobqtg.blu.livefilestore.com...zAcWlEzSoddGCtp-KGf-ZGitxfDjLcKbLg/myhdds.jpg

Samsung F1 750gb vs WD Caviar AAKS series vs 2x Seagate 7200.10 in raid 0.

Could also bench an old ide caviar 250gb and a 300gb diamondmax 10 plus maxtor hdd if anyone is interested ?

fishfishfish · 29 Dec 2008 at 19:10

Just put a pair of 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 drives in my Proliant ML115 with a test install of Fedora on it set up in Raid 0.

Timing buffered disk reads: 678 MB in 3.00 seconds = 225.61 MB/sec

Oo_Scotty_oO · 31 Dec 2008 at 07:49

Top 2*320gb WD RE3's in Raid 0 (32k) ,below my Samsung F1 1TB

Oo_Scotty_oO · 31 Dec 2008 at 10:29

oh & forgot to add my lovely 4gb of ramdisk

eat that SSD

SkeeterUK · 3 Jan 2009 at 14:57

My new samsung 500gig drive (bare just formatted it).

Is this a good reading? As to me it seems a bit slower than i expected. Its in sata 150 mode hopefully.

Craig321 · 3 Jan 2009 at 15:17

My new 1.5TB drives:

Blue line is a short test on the internal drive, red is a long test on my eSATA 1.5TB drive (IcyBox).

Random access is wrong in HDTach, it's actually about 13MS.

VaderDSL · 3 Jan 2009 at 16:34

I'm tempted to go for one of those new Samsungs, and wait until SSD's come down in price.

snowdog · 3 Jan 2009 at 18:58

Oo_Scotty_oO said:
oh & forgot to add my lovely 4gb of ramdisk

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/3162749584_7e9bf98f05_o.png[IMG]

eat that SSD :p[/QUOTE]

Doesn't that lose data if you turn the pc off? Lol :p.

VaderDSL · 3 Jan 2009 at 19:32

snowdog said:
Doesn't that lose data if you turn the pc off? Lol .

afaik it saves whats on the ram disk to the hard drive and reloads it into the ram drive on boot.

Oo_Scotty_oO · 3 Jan 2009 at 21:34

snowdog said:
Doesn't that lose data if you turn the pc off? Lol .

Only if you don't know what your doing

VaderDSL said:
afaik it saves whats on the ram disk to the hard drive and reloads it into the ram drive on boot.

Correct that man! It saves an image after a specified time period in the software (every hour in my case) & at shutdown - it kind of works out like having a USB stick except it's insanely quicker as you can see. GO here if you want to have a play with ram disk

VaderDSL · 4 Jan 2009 at 01:34

I've got a RAMDisk setup currently, using it to store small fiddly files

seems to have helped a lot.

Jimbo Mahoney · 5 Jan 2009 at 15:37

See my post here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17958445

Single Raptor, 2 x Raptors in RAID 0 with varying stripe size and also game loading benchmarks.