Seagate Barracuda HD Tach Results

faicec · 26 Jan 2007 at 00:12

I've put two 320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives in a RAID0 setup and got the following results:

Do they look good, or are they average?

Craig

BloodWolf · 26 Jan 2007 at 07:25

Woah, thats good.

joeyjojo · 26 Jan 2007 at 07:39

Burst is impossibly high (common hdtach bug). The Average read and random access are what you're looking for. Average read is very good, about 80 is common for a single drive and you're getting 117

Random access is 13 ms though, which is slower than say a raptor but still pretty fine

Cpu utilization is wierdly high.

rpstewart · 26 Jan 2007 at 08:47

That's being limited by something, the sustained trace should be a fair bit higher at the left and a lot smoother too. Was there anything else running at the time?

What board/controller are you using?

faicec · 26 Jan 2007 at 11:16

rpstewart said:
That's being limited by something, the sustained trace should be a fair bit higher at the left and a lot smoother too. Was there anything else running at the time?

What board/controller are you using?

Using a very old Socket 754 board with Via controllers

rpstewart · 26 Jan 2007 at 11:28

That could well explain it. It's entirely possible that the controller is on the PCI bus and hence is being limited by that.