VelociRaptor v the Rest

quadcore · 3 Feb 2010 at 11:02

My old Caviar got a 5.2 note in Win7 Performance Assessment and my new VelociRaptor made a 5.9. Is that about right or should I expect more

CreAtiv3 · 3 Feb 2010 at 11:49

Only way you'll see a significant gain is to move to SSDs.

Trox · 3 Feb 2010 at 12:23

Although benchmarks show my intel SSD as quicker, in real life use i dont notice the speed difference from my intel X25-m ssd when comparing it to my velociraptor.

Who actually notices games loading a sec or 2 faster...

ConceptBoz · 3 Feb 2010 at 12:27

Trox said:
Who actually notices games loading a sec or 2 faster...

I'd imagine its everything else thats more noticeable.

To OP afaik 5.9 is the highest a traditional HDD can get.

quadcore · 3 Feb 2010 at 12:51

Thanks for the replies. I just wondered if the increase was about right; never having used anything but the standard HDD before.

quadcore · 3 Feb 2010 at 12:57

Final thought. Doesn't require specific driver does it?

PistolPete · 3 Feb 2010 at 13:19

I get 6.6 for 4 Velociraptors in RAID0, and a single drive doesn't need a specific driver - it's just the same as a "standard" HDD

quadcore · 3 Feb 2010 at 13:23

Thought so. Just that I'm getting drivers together for my new install. Thanks.

Tigjaw · 3 Feb 2010 at 20:57

As far as I know, the Performance Index is coded in a way to only enable raided or solid state drives to recieve scores above 5.9.

If it weren't for this constraint the velociraptor and perhaps other higher spec regular-standalone harddrives would I believe recieve scores above 5.9.

Rroff · 3 Feb 2010 at 21:47

I have a multi disc RAID array - latest seagate mechanical drives - manages speesd in excess of 300MB/s and still only scores 5.9 in Win 7 - even if short stroked for 3ms access times.

jbloggs · 3 Feb 2010 at 21:58

Trox:
in real life use i dont notice the speed difference from my intel X25-m ssd when comparing it to my velociraptor.

I have to admit I certainly notice a difference, either running a Velociraptor as a single HDD or in RAID0 as compared to the Intel X25-M G2s run as single SSD or in RAID0...

tipes · 4 Feb 2010 at 11:02

jbloggs said:
I have to admit I certainly notice a difference, either running a Velociraptor as a single HDD or in RAID0 as compared to the Intel X25-M G2s run as single SSD or in RAID0...

+1. I used to have Velociraptors set up in both single drives and raid - they were pretty quick in raid, but I have to admit that my current pairing of Intel SSD in raid 0 blows them away. Of course the SSD's are still expensive though, but I think the performance gain is worth it because hard drives these days are the limiting factor in pc performance apart from the bus speed of course. If you can afford SSD I think it is the way to go.

Mark