Post your hard drive benchmarks!

Feel free to prove it!!

Buy me a 3rd and sure.

I know for a fact going by Raid0 (2HDD's) in this forum and from reviews.

The fact is the SCSI HDD are now old tech, its not simply about Spindle Speed as you can see from the older Raptor 8MB & 16MB v a new gen 7.2K HDD. ;)

A home user actually does not need SCSI. :)
 
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My missus told me tonight that if I spend one more penny on this setup in the next 12 months, then I'm in deep doo doo....

So you'll have to buy your own 3rd drive!

I've just sold my raptor.. Had to recoup some of the upgrade costs!
 
I reckon 3 x 450Gb 15k.6 Seagate SAS drives would blow that away...

I doubt that 3 x raptors (10k rpm drives) would beat 3 x seagate SAS drive (15k rpm)

I'm welcome to be proved wrong though!

The big thing with these SAS drives though, is that Custom PC did benchmarks on them this month, and the benchmarks were better than real world performance.

Tell you what though, these SAS drives run EXTREMELY hot... you couldn't hold one in your hand after it's been running a while...
 
@ psykix, Once again, your speed is crap for 3x HDD's (comparing to newer HDD's even 7.2K's , 3x VelcioRaptors can beat it.

Once again, I only have 2 and for this temp install not Raided.
 



Just got my new Seagate 1.5TB, clean install of Vista HP 64-bit pre SP1, only installed a few apps and a few games, not done a defrag or anything yet. It's incredibly quiet as well.
 
my new WD 640GB blue's raid 0 in two volumes a 160Gb for the OS and 1TB for data

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Samsung F1's Range!! 320+750+1000

These 3 HDs are in my I7-965 setup. CPU Usage on all is very low with I7:D

Very impressed with the 1TB model.

750 seemed very fast when I got it in Jan but now feels a little sluggish for some reason even on a new Vista build. 320 gives good benchmarks but does not feel much quicker than the older Samsung 2504C it replaced:eek:
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Whoosh. :p

Had two of these drives for the past three years (WD Caviar SE 80gb SATA - one for O/S, other for storage). I just can't be bothered to upgrade them with something else. I'm trying to hold out for some better value solid state drives to appear (128GB would be enough for me).
 
When it was new:
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after asking for RMA (warranty expires 20th Jan):
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I think the case is generally hotter although it is a Antec P180 with hard drive wind tunnel effect.
 
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Are you sure the drive itself is faulty - did you run the manufacturer's diagnostic software for example? :) (obviously the performance there is very bad but it can be down to other things)

I ran chkdisk and seatools and they both found errors. Seatools apparently fixed the errors but 8kb is still in bad sectors. I have 3 other hard drives working at normal speeds. What could I be missing that would make this drive fine but still exhibit this speed and produce errors in long tests?:confused:
 
Here are the two drives in my machine.

A Western Digital Caviar SE16 400gb WD4000AAKS

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250 GB Maxtor STM3250310AS DiamondMax 21, SATA 300 (OS is on here)

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Comments?

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retested the western digital drive again due to the slow response and got the same

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Any ideas?
 
WD500GB Scorpio laptop drive

WD Scorpio 500GB/8MB/5400rpm on my T5450/3GB/XP Pro-Sp3 laptop.:)
Run with the default settings i.e. 64 kB block size....if I use 4 kB block size, the max is about 25 MB/sec.:p
 
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