Post your hard drive benchmarks!

ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 18:42

WD Black 1TB

ChrisLX200 · 2 Feb 2009 at 18:44

jbloggs said:
Impressive "reads"!

Poor access time though, there seems to be a lot spurious seeks causing that high value.

VaderDSL · 2 Feb 2009 at 18:48

ChrisLX200 said:
Poor access time though, there seems to be a lot spurious seeks causing that high value.

Might be my dodgy install first time round, just seen there's a superfluous partition/unallocated space, will try and recombine and see if that makes any difference, but yeah accesstime is odd.

Pred · 2 Feb 2009 at 19:24

XysteR said:
Snip

Nice to see a comparison between the raptors and blacks.
Not much in it really.

XysteR · 2 Feb 2009 at 22:46

Pred said:
Nice to see a comparison between the raptors and blacks.
Not much in it really.

I can store a 100 meg image file on both arrays and load it up in PS3, the Velociraptors feel miles faster than the blacks. Access is streets ahead of the blacks too.

For the price the blacks are great in raid0 though. I made a perfect decision for what i needed on my array setup.

Both run a 128 stripe

XysteR · 2 Feb 2009 at 23:01

Bonjour said:
Fasten your seatbelts...

Western Digital MyBook 1TB USB2

Ramming speed!

Nice USB bottleneck you have there. I hate usb for any kind of backups/storage. I'm lovin eSATA2 as an external solution at the mo

Street · 3 Feb 2009 at 19:10

Heres a couple of mine..

My old 74GB Raptor..

And my 1.5TB RAID0 array made of 2 x 750GB WD drives..

Heres my 320GB laptop drive..

CaseyChaos · 5 Feb 2009 at 01:12

ChrisLX200 said:
WD Black 1TB

I get pretty much the same as you, I'm happy now I know it's running fine.

& HD Tach test done too.

ChrisLX200 · 7 Feb 2009 at 15:38

WD RE3 1TB

An elderly Seagate 250GB 7200.9 attached to the SAS port on an ASUS P6T Deluxe. Going to try the RAID on those ports next...

ChrisLX200 · 7 Feb 2009 at 18:10

Two 250GB Seagate 7200.9 (SATA 1) drives in RAID attached to SAS ports on ASUS P6T. Not breathtaking performance but the improvement compared to the single drive (above) is about what I expected.

Gibbo_GTI · 7 Feb 2009 at 18:17

3 x 320GB WD RE3's in RAID 0. drive is split into 2 partitions for Win XP and Win 7

Oo_Scotty_oO · 7 Feb 2009 at 19:40

Gibbo_GTI said:
3 x 320GB WD RE3's in RAID 0. drive is split into 2 partitions for Win XP and Win 7

Thanks for posting that benchy bud, that was the exact one i needed to see. I have 2 re 320's was wanting to add another one (or maby two

) to add to the array. Looks to be a good gain over 2 drives. PS your burst rate looks on the low side though. Is write cache enabled ?

Ironic Namesake · 7 Feb 2009 at 22:05

Just a single WD 320GB disk. Seems quite low

n1kunj · 8 Feb 2009 at 03:39

Samsung F1 1TB

Not bad at all for a single drive I'd say.

phinix · 8 Feb 2009 at 08:58

n1kunj said:
Samsung F1 1TB

Not bad at all for a single drive I'd say.

PRetty good for a hdd, I was looking for this measures to decide to buy SSD or not.. that helped me a lot, thanks

Looks like it is worth buying even a Solid series, cause SSD have constant read performance, even a lowest models can provide with 150MB/s speeds. Unless writing is issue for you....

mithrandir · 11 Feb 2009 at 23:25

Here are my two drives. How are they?

F1 500gb

Hitachi 640gb

phinix · 12 Feb 2009 at 00:37

Not bad. I thought F1s are fastest...

Adam123 · 13 Feb 2009 at 02:33

@ AIF??

what Strip size you using lol? those speeds look like fun

Mortster · 13 Feb 2009 at 09:36

Upgraded from a Seagate 7200.10 250GB, here :

To a Sammy Spinpoint F1 750GB, here :

And, then added another Sammy F1 for RAID0 (ich8r), here :

domthecondom · 13 Feb 2009 at 13:22

I need to bench mine. is this program free?