post your hard drive benchmarks

awhir

i know this was done before be lets start this again:D


tell us model, make and specs including buffer size, interface and RAID configuration if applicable.
then, post a benchmark using HD Tune

my seagate 7200.9 300gb 16mb buffer and seagate 7200.10 320gb 16mb buffer in raid 0 32k stripe.

Alkers

Here's my storage drive and my Raptor.
Both 16mb buffer Sata2 but the Raptor seems to be showing a 8mb buffer size

Anti

Im pretty sure that raptor only has a 8mb buffer size.

Still not bad for non raid drives.

awhir

anti show me ur raptor raid !!!!

Anti

I'm not running a raptor raid anymore, As i moved them into my server. Am thinking about getting rid of the raid on my AMD system too. As id prefere to have one ghosted.

hopeful

Maxtor 250gb SATA II I think 8gb buffer



Hitachi 400gb SATA II 16mb buffer



Temps are a bit high ATM as my wife has the tumble drier on and refuses to let me open a window

awhir

hopeful wrote:

Temps are a bit high ATM as my wife has the tumble drier on and refuses to let me open a window

lol you got 1 stricket wife

hopeful

awhir wrote:

lol you got 1 stricket wife

Considering the kitchen is almost completely taken over with PC gear (currently four PC's running) she has good reason to moan occasionally

Odaise Gaelach

Here's mine...



Nah, just joking That's a 10GB drive circa... God knows... that I use for backups.


This is my RAID array: two 200GB Seagate 7200.9 8MB ST3200827AS, on an nVidia RAID 0 array and a 32K stripe...




And I benchmarked my USB key as well...



Which performs nearly as well as the 10GB Maxtor.

SouperComputer

Doesnt benchie so well, but the low latency means real-world peformance I'm happy with

Maxtor 10K5 U160 on PCI bus:

awhir

Odaise Gaelach wrote:

Here's mine...




This is my RAID array: two 200GB Seagate 7200.9 8MB ST3200827AS, on an nVidia RAID 0 array and a 32K stripe...

thats strange we nearly have the same hdd and mine pulls ahead a fair bit :rolleyes:

me so happy:D

Alkers

Yea, that seems slow, it's being beaten by non raid set-ups!

Dingatron

2 X 36 GB 8 MB Cache, 10,000 RPM WD Raptor Raid 0

Odaise Gaelach

Simona1986 wrote:

Yea, that seems slow, it's being beaten by non raid set-ups!

Yeah, but it only has a 8MB cache.

Still...

Anti

7% cpu usage, seems a bti high to me.

Alkers

The OP's was 13%, mine are 10% and 11%

Anti

ouch

awhir

said i might as well do it again and it came out better

Richard Dower

Two 74GB Raptors, ADFD 16MB cache on Intel ICH8R. 64K stripe using the latest 6.2.1.1002 drivers, burst is lower due to the drives not being native SATAII.