Post your hard drive benchmarks!

Decide to Bench my HTPC today - it consists of a 640gb Western Digital green power drive & Samsung 1tb F1 . Write cache enabled on both drives on an AM2 platform

WD green power

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no bad going at all considering it's a 5400 rpm drive

Samsung f1

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My Dell Precision 670 workstation at work.
4 x 75Gb seagate 15,000 RPM Ultrawide SCSI on RAID 0

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Not bad considering this machine is nearly three years old now.

I'm going to swap out the disk sytem soon to an AMC/3ware 9550SXU SATA RAID card and 4 x 1TB Samsung F1's in RAID5 I'll post a comparison when its done.

E-I
 
Here we go my new array 3x Samsung F1 320gb in raid 0




Seems a pretty poor result was hoping for quite a bit more to be honest. am using nvidia onboard raid 750i any recomendations would be welcome, was considering getting a hardware raid card but that will have to wait.
 
chezney said:
Here we go my new array 3x Samsung F1 320gb in raid 0




Seems a pretty poor result was hoping for quite a bit more to be honest. am using nvidia onboard raid 750i any recomendations would be welcome, was considering getting a hardware raid card but that will have to wait.
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I've no experience of that chipset, but typically onboard RAID is only really software RAID. i.e. theres no cache memory and processing involved.

Check out the Adaptec and 3ware proper RAID cards, but expect to pay £200+ for a 4 port one.

Just installed a 3Ware 9550 SXU in my work machine with 4 x Samsung spintpoint F1 1Tb in RAID 5. Finishing installing Vista 64 as we speak. I'll post some benchmarks a little later.

E-I
 
Evil-I said:
I've no experience of that chipset, but typically onboard RAID is only really software RAID. i.e. theres no cache memory and processing involved.

Check out the Adaptec and 3ware proper RAID cards, but expect to pay £200+ for a 4 port one.

Just installed a 3Ware 9550 SXU in my work machine with 4 x Samsung spintpoint F1 1Tb in RAID 5. Finishing installing Vista 64 as we speak. I'll post some benchmarks a little later.

E-I
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Will be very interested in your results Guess i will keep checking a familiar auction site for a decent raid card cash is a bit tight but thanks for the reply.
 
Bleeding edge tech from 15 years ago, pulled out of a dusty drawer LOL!

Maxtor 4.2GB drive (circa 1998)
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Western Digital 3.1GB drive (circa 1996)
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Conner 800MB drive (circa 1994)
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Amazingly they still work, read all the files and put them on my storage drive.
 
My 1TB Stripe (not sure which disks exactly at the mo will edit in later)

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(And if that forum bot doesn't stop breaking my balls there will be trouble)
 
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managed to get a Dell perc 5i controller with 256mg memory for £70 quid. doubt it will arrive for the weekend i might even pop out and grab an extra samsung for raid 5 but i will post my results when up and running for comparison with my crappy onboard raid.
 
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