Hard Drive Benchmark Results

[Geoff]

Im curious as to see what you guys get for benchmark results with your hard drive. Download HD Tune , run it, and post back with your screen shot. This way we can see if having RAID 0 really makes much of a difference, if SATAII is much better then SATA, ect.

Heres mine:

That was done on a Seagate Hard Drive (320GB, 16MB Cache, SATAII (using SATA150 port though), 7200RPM, Perpendicular Recording)

 

[The_Other_One]

Here's from my old Raptor 36G RAID. I'll make another later on with my current systems using this program.

As for the performace difference in SATA, IDE, etc... I don't think you'll see too much between interfaces. I beleive it'll all depend on the drives.

*edit*
And here's the HD benchmark for my Averatec's 4200RPM, 60G drive. I beleive it's just ATA133.

 

[DKdeadly]

o boy here i come with my 150gb raptor.We will see what this big boy can do.

 

[DKdeadly]

I dont know about hard drives tell if its fast?But as you notice the raptor 150gb gets very hot and i have a zalman thing for it to keep it cool.But 41C is not bad for harddrive is it?

 

[Geoff]

I dont know about hard drives tell if its fast?But as you notice the raptor 150gb gets very hot and i have a zalman thing for it to keep it cool.But 41C is not bad for harddrive is it?

Doesnt seem much higher then mine, as i said before, raptors are over rated

Hard drive mfg's say that hard drives shouldn't get above 40C for longest life.

 

[DKdeadly]

but its faster. and you have a good harddrive too.The one you have its one of the best ones too.

 

[WeatherMan]

Here's mine, have a huge spike due to disk access

 

[Geoff]

Here's mine, have a huge spike due to disk access

That happens to me sometimes when someone messages me when im running the benchmark.

Is your drive SATA or SATAII?

 

[WeatherMan]

Just standard SATA.

 

[The_Other_One]

I dont know about hard drives tell if its fast?But as you notice the raptor 150gb gets very hot and i have a zalman thing for it to keep it cool.But 41C is not bad for harddrive is it?

That's a bit slower than I was first expecting, but I guess it's about right if I got ~215Mbps with my RAID...

As for the temp, that does seem a little high. As you saw with my laptop, it was only running at 28*C(but it has been in the 40s and 50s if I recall correctly)

 

[Nini]

Im not even on my computer right now (friends house) but they had this program on their comp..thought i shud post it

 

[Geoff]

heres a screenshot from the family PC hard drive. It's a very old drive, but im not sure of the specs:

 

[fade2green514]

the main difference with the raptor is the access time. throughput isnt much different though, probably because they use sata150 ports.
ill post my drives bench in a minute. i think mine runs like 25C which is nice and cool... but its performance is average.
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e55/fade2green514/hdbench.jpg
i like my burst rate and my temp mostly... lol
probably because i have a 120mm fan cooling my hard drives though. lol

 

[Geoff]

Im wondering how some 15K SAS drives work. You can get a 74GB for around $410, lol.

 

[fade2green514]

Im wondering how some 15K SAS drives work. You can get a 74GB for around $410, lol.

probably a lot better than the raptors because they dont use sata1, the interface doesnt bottleneck the access time as much...

i think ill do a fresh reformat, and bench it then... and then once i get my second 80gb do another fresh reformat, and see what the performance differences are.

 

[fade2green514]

now that i finally have my internet back-

this is my dads 60gig (ata somethin or other)

this is my single 80gig sata2 8mb buffer (western digital)

and this is dual 80gig in RAID 0 (32kb stripe)

haha nice, i doubled my bandwidth with absolutely no penalty on the latency.

 

[Cromewell]

probably a lot better than the raptors because they dont use sata1, the interface doesnt bottleneck the access time as much...

The interface speed isn't bottlenecking a raptor. Not even close.

 

[MatrixEVO]

Here is my benchmark. I have a Hitachi Deskstar 250GB SATAII:



I am using the Antec P180 case and it separates the hard drive into its own channel for cooling along with the PSU at the other end of the case. I have a fan that blows air right past the HDD and to the rear of the case. I think this is why I have a good temp (29c after benchmark).

 

[Cromewell]

Just to show the difference from SATA150 and SATA300. This is the same model drive as Omega had but was run on the faster interface.

 

[Geoff]

Very interesting. And for those who dont feel like scrolling back some pages, here was my result on a SATA150 interface:

And here was on his 300 interface.