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The Hard Drive Benchmarking Thread

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Okay, so while reading another forum, i came across a Hard disk Benchmarking thread and thought to myself: "Sick, Why didn't I think of this?!" and, in turn, decided to start the same thread here.

So this is how it's going to work.

We're going to use HDTach to do the benchmark. You can get it HERE.
Download the free one.

Then, run the test on the drive you want, but run the short test, the 8MB test.

Then, take a screenie if the result and post the screenie along with your hard disk info, like this:

Seagate 80GB IDE (ST380011A)

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Just like that :D

I did this on my HTPC. I'll setup a RAID array on my Hitachi SATA 2 disks now now and see what speed i get :D

So come on guys, lets see it.


EDIT: Ag sorry, i posted this in the wrong section. Could a mod please move it for me. Thank you :D
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Western Digital 80GB SATA (WD800JD-00LUA0)

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This WD SATA 80GB is 35.7mb/s faster than my Seagate 80GB SATA. Plus the WD has windows loaded on it. WTF? I thought the Seagate was faster so thats where I put all my games. Also the Seagate is 1 bar fitter than the WD in the SpeedFan S.M.A.R.T. test. The Seagate is at max. This is worrying.
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Western Digital Caviar 40GB EIDE HDD, 2 MB cache, 7200rpm at work....

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This lil 40GB IDE damn near shows-up your SATA drive Cyclic. It gives DJV's one a good hiding :D
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External 160GB IDE:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/B ... 316002.jpg

Internal 40GB IDE:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/B ... 40016A.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/B ... 40015A.jpg

Internal 160GB SATA:
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d73/B ... 0827AS.jpg

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Yes, I know I'm sick....
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Holy sh*t... What is that?
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Post by DAE_JA_VOO »

Okay, here's ONE of my Hitachi SATA2 hard disks:

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And here's two of them in RAID 0:

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Jeez Syndicate, what the hell is that?
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4 x Hitachi 250gb Sata1 RAID 0, I forgot to set it to Sata2, else it would have been faster.
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Hehehe Cyclic... That is also RAID it seems... I think it is faster than DJV's cause it about 3 times more space than his... Well that is what I think, since it also says STRIPE same as DJV's...
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how do you check if your drives are set as sata 2 or sata 1?
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Can sum1 email me the prog, as install block won't let me d/load it?
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8O Mother of *****, Syndicate! That setup is schweeet!!

@Belix, wow... That is awesome too man! :-D

@Oj, you have mail.

Hmmm. I'll run this thing now, and post as well.
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At what email address?
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SATA 160Gb Samsung. Cheap, effective, fast. I like :-)
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51.8MB/s is average, isn't it?
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okay guys - will try this out soon

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Post by DAE_JA_VOO »

Oj wrote:51.8MB/s is average, isn't it?
Nope, that's slow dude. My 80GB IDE disk get's about 93.
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Oj wrote:51.8MB/s is average, isn't it?
That is slow. I just hit 87 with my work PCs 40gig ATA
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That's what I thought. Anyway, I'll install it later.
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40GB Laptop HardDrive, fairly decent i reckon.
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Not too shabby :D
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