HD Tach Benchmarks

[DHJudas]

going to share some results....

here are some 160gb (4x) maxtor 8mb cache sata 2 drives in raid 0 on ULi 1575 array...

later using the same raid controller.... upgraded to 4x 320gb 16mb cache 7200.10's from seagate...

I then moved to a ICH7R chipset which improved my burst speeds and slightly increased my results...

but then i got a board with the ICH9R and 6x 500gb Seagate 7200.11's (compared to the 320gb seagate on the same ich9r chipset) before tuning initial testing...

after a little tweaking of the system...

my basically solid final results..

 

[cdawall]

good god 2.45GB/s thats insane!

 

[DHJudas]

yeah that is insane.. i've seen bursts of over 3gb/s... however... but... bursts don't mean much.. it's the average speed that matters


this is using the 32mb test.. if i use the 8.. the burst hits almost 4gb occasionally.... and the average will read anywhere from 750-800mb/s.... lol it's very inaccurate...

that's why i stick with the 32mb test....

 

[ntdouglas]

going to share some results....

here are some 160gb (4x) maxtor 8mb cache sata 2 drives in raid 0 on ULi 1575 array...

later using the same raid controller.... upgraded to 4x 320gb 16mb cache 7200.10's from seagate...

I then moved to a ICH7R chipset which improved my burst speeds and slightly increased my results...

but then i got a board with the ICH9R and 6x 500gb Seagate 7200.11's (compared to the 320gb seagate on the same ich9r chipset) before tuning initial testing...

after a little tweaking of the system...

my basically solid final results..

For your final results, what tweaking did you do? Excellent scores man

 

[DHJudas]

just did a cleanup the drive..... adjusted my computers clocks so they were more stable...

disabled some of intels smart fan crap.. and auto throttling.. as it inpacks quite a bit of the results.. making them inaccurate.. (occasionally giving good results one second and then bad the next....)

the CPU usuage looks highly inaccurate..

i could likely hit 750mb/s average in the 32mb test.. but

i'm using 128kb stripe size... if i were to use 4kb/s stripe size.. the results would be likely over 1,000MB/s average read... due to this benchmark being biased towards the smaller stripe sizes... hdtach maker NEEDS to do a little work in making changes to how hdtach benchmarks....

ALL i know is that i can do copying @ over 250MB/s from within the same drive..... which is incredible when transfering 20-30gb HD-DVD/BR files

 

[ntdouglas]

just did a cleanup the drive..... adjusted my computers clocks so they were more stable...

disabled some of intels smart fan crap.. and auto throttling.. as it inpacks quite a bit of the results.. making them inaccurate.. (occasionally giving good results one second and then bad the next....)

the CPU usuage looks highly inaccurate..

i could likely hit 750mb/s average in the 32mb test.. but

i'm using 128kb stripe size... if i were to use 4kb/s stripe size.. the results would be likely over 1,000MB/s average read... due to this benchmark being biased towards the smaller stripe sizes... hdtach maker NEEDS to do a little work in making changes to how hdtach benchmarks....

ALL i know is that i can do copying @ over 250MB/s from within the same drive..... which is incredible when transfering 20-30gb HD-DVD/BR files

Nice. I'm at a 64k stripe. That increased performance. Speed really jumped when I removed the jumpers.

 

[DHJudas]

I've got a slight advantage compared to most other machines mind you.


Considering that my rig consists of the following:

Coolermaster cosmos 1000
OCZ GamerXStream 700watt
Gigabyte GA-x38-DQ6
Intel Q6600
8gb of OCZ DDR2 PC6400 (2x(2x2gb kits)
2x HD3870's in crossfire
6x Seagate 500gb Barracuda 7200.11's
1x Sata Pioneer DVR-212
1x External USB 500gb Seagate Freeagent drive
Logitech Z-5500 using Coax Digital connect to onboard Realtek ALC889a (dts Connect)
Dell 3007WFP 30" 2560x1600 Monitor
Logitech G5/G9 mouse
Microsoft erganomic 4000 keyboard

Additional goodies.. all under windows vista x64 ultimate eddition...

 

[ntdouglas]

I've got a slight advantage compared to most other machines mind you.


Considering that my rig consists of the following:

Coolermaster cosmos 1000
OCZ GamerXStream 700watt
Gigabyte GA-x38-DQ6
Intel Q6600
8gb of OCZ DDR2 PC6400 (2x(2x2gb kits)
2x HD3870's in crossfire
6x Seagate 500gb Barracuda 7200.11's
1x Sata Pioneer DVR-212
1x External USB 500gb Seagate Freeagent drive
Logitech Z-5500 using Coax Digital connect to onboard Realtek ALC889a (dts Connect)
Dell 3007WFP 30" 2560x1600 Monitor
Logitech G5/G9 mouse
Microsoft erganomic 4000 keyboard

Additional goodies.. all under windows vista x64 ultimate eddition...

Wow! Very nice. I bet you enjoyed typing your specs in didn't you.
That would be too overkill for me. Impressive though.

 

[t_ski]

For those of you running HD Tach on Vista, have you noticed an drop in benchmark numbers from XP? My old XP raid array got over 400 MB/s read scores, but in Vista I'm seeing 129 MB/s reads. However, the drive does not "feel" any slower. Is there some kind of fix or setting I'm missing?

 

[AlCapone]

Hi guys! I will introduce to myself first and tell you a bit about this system. My name is Juan Pablo Soto a.k.a. AlCapone at www.chw.net, the biggest hardware site in spanish in wich I'm one of the collaborators. Yesterday, for professional reasons me and yakko, another partner at CHW, are testing an interesting platform that i designed and he as Linux IT Specialist and System Manager pushed to the limits. We work together in businesses projects for a long time and we believe that we have achieved a great record now.

So, now specs and screenshots!

Average Read: 988.9 MB/S
Country: Chile
Disk Model: 7 x Seagate 7200.11
BUS: SATA II
Buffer: 32MB
RPM: 7200
Size: 3.5''
Array: RAID 0 (stripe) of 7 disks
Array Size: 7 TB
Controller: Areca ARC-1261 with 256MB RAM ECC DDR2 667 MHz
Block size : 64k
Motherboard: Tyan Toledo i3210w
Processor: Intel Xeon E3110 (Dual Core, 3 Ghz, 45 nm)
RAM: 2 x 2GB DDR2 800 Mhz ECC Kingston
Power: Antec TruePower Quattro 850W
Chassis: Norco 4U Rackmount Server Case w/20 Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS Drive Bays
OS: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise

SS:

The most impressive thing is the controller. Areca's ARC-1261 can manage 16 Sata II hard drives + 4 SAS drives and all of the I/O are managed using it. We think that the results are amazing and we would like to get any possible feedback including get to now about WR for this test because maybe using more HDs in a bigger Raid 0 Array we can get close to it or even beat it... Why not to dream right? Hahahaha...

Best regards fellows!

 

[Wile E]

If you want to go after world recods, I'd look at grabbing the Intel SLC flash drives. (Providing you could afford them that is.

 

[AlCapone]

In professional environment SSD aren't known yet. I haven't any request still involving SSD and the only people that i know that uses SSD drives are gamers.
Thanks for the feedback!

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

You never had a chance!

 

[DOM]

For those of you running HD Tach on Vista, have you noticed an drop in benchmark numbers from XP? My old XP raid array got over 400 MB/s read scores, but in Vista I'm seeing 129 MB/s reads. However, the drive does not "feel" any slower. Is there some kind of fix or setting I'm missing?

how do you even get it to work in vista

 

[Wile E]

You never had a chance!

I don't know if I'm missing something, but it seems to me his is faster.

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

That is from one drive.

 

[Wile E]

That is from one drive.

Yeah, but isn't that on a PCIe interface? (Fuzion IO) Can you RAID them?

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

Yes, you can RAID them but I only had one.

 

[chuck216]

Here are my 2 drives (well actually 3) The first is my 200GB IDE WD, the second is my 2x WD 250 GB Raid 0 Array

 

[Wile E]

Yes, you can RAID them but I only had one.

How does that work? That also assumes you have enough slots for them I imagine. (Genuine curiosity, btw)

 

[Chris_Ramseyer]

Lets just say I really want to get my hands on the Asus board with 6 PCIe X16 slots.

The RAID will come in Windows and maybe a tied in hardware solution later. I really don't know other than some people are working on it. I get updates from time to time, nothing solid yet.

The company is planning a consumer version of the card that should see daylight next year. Booting off one of these cards would be off the hook.

 

[Wile E]

Lets just say I really want to get my hands on the Asus board with 6 PCIe X16 slots.

The RAID will come in Windows and maybe a tied in hardware solution later. I really don't know other than some people are working on it. I get updates from time to time, nothing solid yet.

The company is planning a consumer version of the card that should see daylight next year. Booting off one of these cards would be off the hook.

Yeah, I like the looks of that Asus board as well. I just can't decide what to do about i7. lol. I still have a couple of months to decide anyway tho.

 

[cdawall]

my current drives top one is a single 320GB seagate AAE drive bottom is a WD 36GB raptor


i will have 6x36GB raptors up by Xmas so keep tuned for that

 

[Arctucas]

4 x 320GB Barracuda 7200.10 RAID 0+1:

 

[djisas]

One single barracuda 320 7200.11 outperforms that, 2 of them twice that...
Got some troubles with them today and their not workin, see if i get them to run tomorow and run some new tests...