Hard Drive Benchmark Results

[bumblebee_tuna]

So in what condition is my hard drive in?

 

[Burgerbob]

My drive is HOT. And its regular SATA, 160GB WD.

 

[Geoff]

So in what condition is my hard drive in?

Looks like an average SATA drive. But were you doing something during the test? because usually you dont see a drop to 1MB/s on SATA drives.

 

[bumblebee_tuna]

Looks like an average SATA drive. But were you doing something during the test? because usually you dont see a drop to 1MB/s on SATA drives.

I don't think I was...... It could have been a program in the background maybe.........

 

[SirKenin]

How about using real world tests? Let's use our brains for something besides a hair farm if we're going to create useless threads.

With the two fastest SATA harddrives on the planet:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2101

The conclusion?

ottom line: RAID-0 arrays will win you just about any benchmark, but they'll deliver virtually nothing more than that for real world desktop performance. That's just the cold hard truth.

Case closed. You might as well give up while you're still behind.

 

[ADE]

Hay, I haven't read all the posts but someone do one with a 3GB/s HDD.

 

[Cromewell]

Hay, I haven't read all the posts but someone do one with a 3GB/s HDD.

I did one already and Omega quoted it with his 1.5 for a comparison http://www.computerforum.com/514387-post20.html

 

[ADE]

What was the name for that one?

 

[Cromewell]

What do you mean? They were identicle 320GB seagate drives.

 

[Boomer]

Old thread, but there are a lot of nice benchmarks in here.....lets keep it going.

here is my raptor drives in RAID 0:

here is my WD 200gig media drive:

and finally here is my laptop drive:

 

[kof2000]

80gb 5400rpm 2mb ata100

74gbx2 10k 8m raid 0 sata150

single raptor x 10k 16m sata150

single 320 16m sataII

 

[Cromewell]

What is wrong with your ATA/RAID controller(s) and/or drives? Those are huge dips.

 

[Geoff]

Heres my latest after setting up my RAID 0 array:

 

[Kesava]

 

[Geoff]

Overall i'm very happy with my RAID 0 setup. It almost doubled in average transfer rate speed compared to others and about 1/3 faster then a single 320GB SATAII 16MB drive. It also seems to be more steady, unlike the single drives which tend to creep downwards in the HD benchmarking tests.

 

[MatrixEVO]

Haha, I outperformed you Geoff (except for min. transfer)...

This is while running Vista Ultimate 64 (thanks Geoff ):

 

[Geoff]

Haha, I outperformed you Geoff (except for min. transfer)...

This is while running Vista Ultimate 64 (thanks Geoff ):

Wait until I remove the jumpers and see what happens

 

[MatrixEVO]

Wait until I remove the jumpers and see what happens

Haha, we'll see.

 

[Geoff]

Haha, we'll see.

I dont feel like taking everything out of the case to access them, so i'll do it when I switch cases.

 

[MatrixEVO]

I dont feel like taking everything out of the case to access them, so i'll do it when I switch cases.

So what were the results?

Here's another of mine. Maybe the Service Pack helped it's performance, and/or the quad core as opposed to the dual core I had.

Min - 70.5 MB/s
Max - 151.1 MB/s
Ave - 121.1 MB/s

Access Time - 13.1 ms
Burst Rate - 153.3 MB/s
CPU Usage - 1.8%