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HD Tach Benchmarks

Wile E said:
Nice. Random Access seems a little on the high side, tho.
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yep but cant do anything about it - only about half a second slower than two raided raptors loading up games.

so I'm happy.
 
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there is mine after i raid 0 them with 64kb strip size

btw, is there anyway to make them faster? :laugh:
 
overclock it :)
 
no.... but you could build an array with 4 of them and old allow the '0' config to see the first 30 gig of each hdd with a stripe of 16 it might just be faster ...
 
The more drives you add the faster it gets. I've still got the fastest benches in this thread with 3 x 36GB Raptors:
 

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Sorry, I missed that one. I musta been too focused on the messed up burst speed.

BTW, what setup do you have with those drives anyway? You might want to add some system specs to your profile...
 
btw t, I think I may have you beat with my 3x 7200.10s in RAID 0 I'll post HDTach in a day or two I can't remember what I got offhand :)
 
i still think the raptor will be faster, the only way to beat them is to have 4 7200 drives
 
regan1985 said:
i still think the raptor will be faster, the only way to beat them is to have 4 7200 drives
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Not true. If you look back thru this thread, my 7200.10 320GB Seagate is faster then the 36GB Raptors, and the same speed as the 8MB Cache 74GB Raptors.


EDIT: I apparently didn't post my results in this thread. Must have done it in one of the other HDTach threads.

EDIT2: Here's my Seagate vs a 74GB Raptor 8MB Cache.
 

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i mean in a raid-0 setup! 3 raptors against 3 seagates the raptors win not only because of the random access times but the average read from what ive seen in the past. raptors seem to perform even better in raid!! this is from some who hasnt ever had a raptor and loves his seagate!

but then again proove me wrong and i will eat my words:)
 
regan1985 said:
i mean in a raid-0 setup! 3 raptors against 3 seagates the raptors win not only because of the random access times but the average read from what ive seen in the past. raptors seem to perform even better in raid!! this is from some who hasnt ever had a raptor and loves his seagate!

but then again proove me wrong and i will eat my words:)
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Fair enough. Guess we'll have to wait for him to post.
 
i would like to see how the Barracuda 7200.11 compare but i dont know anyone who has one!
 
nflesher87 said:
btw t, I think I may have you beat with my 3x 7200.10s in RAID 0 I'll post HDTach in a day or two I can't remember what I got offhand :)
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Probably, crazyfinx beat me, too:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=340216&postcount=109

When I set up my new mobo I decided to use raid 5 for the parity. Lol I forgot about the parity loss!!! (losing 36gb storage to parity) I've got two 250gb seagates on their way (hopefully today) which I will be setting up in raid 1 for all my important data. Then I will take my raptors and put them back in raid 0. From what I've seen, the Intel ICH performs much better than the NF4 controller I was using, so when I get around to it I will have to run some tests and see what kind of difference it makes.

Oh, and BTW - 74GB raptors usually beat the 36GB ones. However, if anyone had a 36gb raptor wd360gd-00flc0 I'd love to buy it and have four of them in raid 0 ;)
 
OK, I've got a problem, but in a good way ;) I got the Seagates today and I'm testing them out. First one in tested OK and benched at 84.3 MB/s :eek: If I have three of those in there, they'd beat my Raptors for sure. Probably close to 250 mb/s for all three in raid 0 :pimp:

Now I'm thinking I should just buy a third drive and sell my raptors :confused:
 
go for it bro, you'd actually get some cash back in the end

and HDTach is forthcoming by the end of the night ;) :D
 
Second drive tested out around 81 MB/s. I think I'm gonna put the two of them together on the EZ Backup ports on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe and see what they do together. That will have to wait until at least after class tonight though :(
 
OK, thanks nflesher87. That's what I needed. BTW, do you remember what size stripe you used to set it up?

I was able to test both drives, each by themselves on the JMicron controller. I've attached the images below.

Drive 1 - 84.3 MB/s
Drive 2 - 81.6 MB/s

The next bench was with the two dives in Raid 0, but they had to be installed on the Silicon Image 4723 (EZBackup) Controller because the second port for the JMicron is an eSATA port, and I don't have a cable ATM that would work with it.

Both drives in raid 0 - 121.1 MB/s

Unfortunately the Silicon Image controller sux... :( Notice how level the graph is? I don't even get the option to adjust stripe size with this one (EZBackup = for noobs). :mad:
 

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yeah that sucks bro, and I've even heard JMicron is garbage to begin with...
I'm going to reboot real quick and check for sure what stripe width I used I can't remember off hand, but in the mean time feast your eyes on this! (haha it's my iPod Classic 80GB)
 
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just checked and I used a 32KB stripe as I suspected, it's the recommend RAID0 stripe width
 
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