The Hard Drive Benchmarking Thread

viceroy · Post by **viceroy** » 29 May 2006, 17:49

DAE_JA_VOO wrote:
Oj wrote:51.8MB/s is average, isn't it?
Nope, that's slow dude. My 80GB IDE disk get's about 93.

Nope, your 80GB IDE drive gets 46.8
Your SATA2 Hitachi gets 52.2
And your RAID 0 SATA2 Hitachi drives get 104.7

His average read of 51.8 is respectable

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » 12 Jun 2006, 14:44

Here is mine:

Western Digital 250GB Cavair SE 16MB cache (WD2500KS) - running in sata1

I'd love to get my hand on another one of these drives and see how it does in raid 0. That would be awesome. Coz those raid scores are really looking good

Belix · Post by **Belix** » 12 Jun 2006, 14:54

I notice synidates score seems to have 'maxed' out at 130MB/s. That must be some bottleneck somewhere as the score does not dip at the end like the other scores. What imposed this bottleneck?

EDIT: Ah ok...

It is important to note that an SATA controller can only perform as fast as it's slowest link. In some systems this bottleneck is the PCI bus. Many controllers (even onboard SATA controllers) use the PCI bus, which has a maximum transfer rate of about 130MB/s. To make matters worse, this is shared bandwidth that other PCI devices can use. Thankfully the SATA available on the NF3/4 and some Intel chipsets do not suffer these limitations.

source

Thinice · Post by **Thinice** » 12 Jun 2006, 15:17

Heres mine

2 x 160 gig SATA 2 drives in RAID 0

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 12 Jun 2006, 16:07

naughty wrote:okay guys - will try this out soon

Ok. And when we gonna see a pair of these in RAID?

Post by **KillerByte** » 12 Jun 2006, 16:16

Custom PC put 4 Raptor X in RAID.

The combined cache is 64Mb makes the benchmarking programs believe the drives have a 0ms access time

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 12 Jun 2006, 17:58

Lol awsum!

Oj · Post by Oj » 17 Jun 2006, 15:04

I got a bottleneck. Solid 20.7MB/s, never changes my so much as 0.1MB/s

WiK1d · Post by **WiK1d** » 24 Sep 2006, 21:57

Ok...so my average is second best...but my burst is utter ****...what's wrong?

It's 2 x Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATA2 RAID0

Bobendren · Post by **Bobendren** » 25 Sep 2006, 01:08

Looks like it's running at sata1 speeds instead of sata2.

What motherboard do you have?

DAE_JA_VOO · Post by **DAE_JA_VOO** » 25 Sep 2006, 01:34

He's got that ABIT Fatal1ty board.

No wait, he's got a DFI board, that 3200 Crossfire board.

Sickwacky · Post by **Sickwacky** » 15 Oct 2006, 14:32

Sunday and bored at home... "oh look! i've found 2 of the same harddrives! sweet! ... damn... 5400rpm ATA100... 40GB..."

funny how the 2 are more than 100% faster than the 1 alone

RAID 0 FTW!

*sigh* oh well

Kenjutsu · Post by **Kenjutsu** » 15 Oct 2006, 22:00

Seagate 300 GB SATA I (ST3300831AS):

Seagate 160 GB SATA I (ST3160827AS):

1GB USB Flash:

SLIP · Post by **SLIP** » 16 Oct 2006, 08:00

Seagate 80GB SATA

Cupis · Post by **Cupis** » 16 Oct 2006, 10:48

ok i ran it on my 250GB SATA 300.

i got 250... is that roughly the normal speeds?

44xsake · Post by **44xsake** » 21 Oct 2006, 13:26

200GB Western digital SATA2

Cupis · Post by **Cupis** » 21 Oct 2006, 13:57

44xsake wrote:

200GB Western digital SATA2

huh?? nothing bout benching?