Post your HDD and SSD Speeds!

[alexsubri]

hey alex those hdrives are good speeds[better than mine for sure!!],are they sata 2 or 3 just out of curiosity?

Thank`s, they are actually SATA 3Gb/s..however (not that it makes a difference) I have them plugged into a SATA 6Gb/s cable. My ASUS Sabertooth 990FX comes with 6 of 6Gb/s SATA ports and 2 3Gb/s SATA ports (different controller).

Re-test with HDtune please?

Sure, but remember the HD-Tune isn't recording my Raid 0 Driver, I don't know why?

I don't want to update my driver to AMD Raid because its only for the 88x series and my motherboard is 990fx. I don't know if its backwards compatible.

Here she goes one more time:

 

[Maban]

Thank`s, they are actually SATA 3Gb/s..however (not that it makes a difference) I have them plugged into a SATA 6Gb/s cable. My ASUS Sabertooth 990FX comes with 6 of 6Gb/s SATA ports and 2 3Gb/s SATA ports (different controller).

Sure, but remember the HD-Tune isn't recording my Raid 0 Driver, I don't know why?

I don't want to update my driver to AMD Raid because its only for the 88x series and my motherboard is 990fx. I don't know if its backwards compatible.

Here she goes one more time:

http://i55.tinypic.com/24mden6.jpg

You aren't using traditional RAID. You are using Windows 7's built in, entirely software, RAID. You should set it up properly. You'll get better performance.

 

[alexsubri]

You aren't using traditional RAID. You are using Windows 7's built in, entirely software, RAID. You should set it up properly. You'll get better performance.

Isn't stripping it, RAID 0? I can install the Raid Driver, but its for 88x motherboards, mine is 990

edit: let me just ask this question, should I download the 88x Raid driver even though mine is 990?

Thanks

 

[Maban]

SB850 and SB950 are effectively identical. Make sure you have your SATA mode set to RAID in the BIOS. You'll have to reinstall Windows or do a registry hack to change it if it's not set yet.

 

[ERazer]

heres my intel 510 120gb, pretty much at spec

 

[Steevo]

 

[khemist]

heres my intel 510 120gb, pretty much at spec

http://img.techpowerup.org/111013/ssd.jpg

You are not using the right prog to bench.

It should be hdtune.

 

[Steevo]

You are right, every other benchmark program including the "pro" version gives me over 700MBps read from my RAID array, on a dedicated card, that hundreds of others have tested, and only HD Tune free version reports odd results.


Yep, seems legit.

Windows 7 starts in 7 seconds.

Yep, its slow.

 

[ERazer]

You are not using the right prog to bench.

It should be hdtune.

FYI do not run HDTune with SSD's as per manufacturer recommendation.

I remember hearing that, but was any explanation given?

Its not accurate usually. I foget the exact reasons why 9buffered spot sampling?), but HDTune/HDtach were made for mechanical drives, and not SSD's.

Here you go: Solid State Drive technology uses wear level algorithms to ensure each DRAM modules receives equal usage, but HDD tests tools are designed to sample disk 'sectors' for performance and SSD's don't never read or write to the same sector.

Sequential test tools such as ATTO Disk Benchmark, HD-Tach, HD-Tune, Passmark PerformaceTest , CrystalDiskMark, and AS-SSD are all usable benchmarks, but occasionally report performance inconsistencies because of buffered spot sampling and NAND condition. Additionally, CrystalDiskMark and AS-SSD often report much lower sequential read and write bandwidth speeds compared to HD-Tach and HD-Tune, while ATTO Disk Benchmark relies on file size chucks to report bandwidth. The sequential bandwidth speeds reported by CrystalDiskMark and AS-SSD are so low they become questionable, while Passmark PerformaceTest, HD-Tach, and HD-Tune reveal very little information about buffer saturation and are prone to NAND condition impacting performance results.

Of the sequential tools, ATTO Disk Benchmark is most preferred because it illustrates bandwidth speed results at varying file size transfers. From my testing for this article and in other projects, along with the results I've seen from the software tools used, I can conclude that ATTO Disk Benchmark has proven itself consistent in recording SSD bandwidth results and doesn't seem to have a preference for faster SSD DRAM cache mechanisms found in some SSDs. The variety of file size chunks that it tests does give a broad picture of bandwidth performance at each level. Although ATTO is not perfect and still uses spot-testing, it's less imperfect for SSD testing than many of the other alternatives.

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[satindemon4u]

heres my intel 510 120gb, pretty much at spec

http://img.techpowerup.org/111013/ssd.jpg

Use HDTune please

You are not using the right prog to bench.

It should be hdtune.

Thanks.

http://img.techpowerup.org/111013/diskspeed HD Tune.jpg

Name of the SSD? Also, is that one SSD? Need to know these two things so I can post correctly. Thank you!

 

[Steevo]

Same as before, two Agility 3 in RAID 0 on a Rocket RAID 640 PCIe 4X

 

[satindemon4u]

updated!

 

[Steevo]

Update, flashing to firmware 2.15 after a couple issues with Kernel_Data_inpage_error and windows suddenly taking minutes to load then acting normal.......they broke my drives.


I have posted to OCZ forums to see if I will get support, however one mod is trying to blame my 640 for my issues, despite others still having or gaining these same symptoms after the new firmware has been installed.

 

[Steevo]

After a chkdsk and a day off.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Crucial M4 64gb SATA III on P67

WD Black 1TB 32mb cache, RAID 1 on SB700 ( cause on my P67 they are a bit slower)

 

[Nordic]

HD Tach version 2.70
Drive: PhysicalDrive0 500.1gb
CPU utilization: 5.1%
64 zones to be tested (-833918kb zones).
Random access Time: 15.5 ms (lower is better)
Burst speed: 221.8 MB/s
Average read speed: 102.4 Mb/s
Maximum Speed: 138.1 Mb/s
Minimum Speed: 62.9 Mb/s

Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB Sata 3

 

[MustangGT2142]

Crucial M4 128gb, sata 3, 0009 firmware

 

[TheOne]

OCZ Agility 3 120GB
(Newegg)

Firmware: 2.15
SATAII (3.0Gb/s)

HD Tune Pro 5.00:
Run 1

Run 2

ATTO Benchmark 2.46:

Write: 259MB/s - Read: 277MB/s

 

[jgrahl]

Raid 0 1x WD Raptor 150GB 10k RPM and 1x WD Velociraptor 150GB 10K RPM SATA 3Gb/s



Raid 0 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3500630AS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb/s



Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini 250GB

 

[stefanels]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500Gb (main drive)

Samsung HD103SJ 1Tb (storage drive)

 

[LiveOrDie]

Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD Sata 3

 

[Grnfinger]

2x60GB Vertex II Raid0

 

[Athlon2K15]

Necro

Force GT 180GB RAID0

 

[Millennium]

I was going to say that seems a bit slow - then I realised it's 1000mb/s not 100 lol! nice result. is it fast? :]

 

[Athlon2K15]

Its decent, goes from bios to windows ,you see flashes of what used to be the loading screen