HD Tach Benchmarks

[t_ski]

I get a crazy burst score. I've run it a couple times and it's consistent.

You're using Vista, right? I assume it's something to do with caching. By any chance are you using the USB Stick swapfile thing (I can't remember what it's called ATM - something Boost)? I wonder if that's throwing it off.

 

[Pinchy]

On request:

 

[ntdouglas]

Use Print Screen (or Alt + Print Screen) to capture the image, then post it in MS Paint. Save it as a JPG file. When you post here, go to Advanced (not the Quick Reply at the bottom of the page), scroll down to Additional Options (below the post text box), click on Manage Attachments, browse to the pic, and click Upload. It will list the image in the current window when it done uploading, then you can close the window and submit your post.

Thanks. I will try. Yeah, my device manager looks identical to pinchy's.

 

[t_ski]

OK, Pinchy, I've looked over your screenshot and can't figure it out. Mine's an NF4 board, so what I gave you works for mine and probably most other NF4 boards. If it's not in the Raid Controller check the Volumes (though I doubt it) or the drive labeled "RAID." If it's still not there, keep looking around under all the tabs for each device's Properties. As a last resort, you might try Googling it.

 

[oily_17]

@ Pinchy

You could look under Disk Drives / Raid / Properties / Policies ,it might show up there.

Here's what mine shows.

 

[t_ski]

That's write caching though. We're looking for read caching.

 

[oily_17]

Oooops!! my fault,disregard that then.Didn't read properly.

 

[t_ski]

That's OK. Thanks for trying. If anybody else has a clue where it might be in an Intel board, please help us out.

 

[ntdouglas]

Guys. I've been reading up on caching. Maybe for this bench it would perform better. But otherwise its best to have read caching enabled if I understand it correctly. The computer will read the most commonly used info from cache verses the hard drive. I've spent awhile looking all over windows for that option and can't find it. I'm not sure its even an option on some drives.

 

[Pinchy]

Maybe its because in BIOS, ever since i set up my RAID, my HDD's dont show up. Unless thats normal

Weird problem eh?

 

[rizzo]

You're using Vista, right? I assume it's something to do with caching. By any chance are you using the USB Stick swapfile thing (I can't remember what it's called ATM - something Boost)? I wonder if that's throwing it off.

I'm running XPpro and no usb swap file. Guess it's some kinda glitch. I'm overclocked pretty high but stable so i doubt thats causing it.

 

[t_ski]

I saw the desktop and thought it was Vista. I'm using XPPro, too and I have a good 40% overclock.

 

[Pinchy]

I got no overclock and mine seems pretty high

 

[strick94u]

 

[demonbrawn]

Is it normal to have HUGE jumps? I mean, mine goes from about 80 MB/s to 0 and right back up about 5 times in the long test.

Also, how do you get a screen shot of your desktop?

 

[t_ski]

A downward spike is usually caused by other drive activity that prevents the test from running. Something like swapfile usage, other programs, etc can cause it to happen. It's typical to see, but you should try to eliminate them if possible.

To get a screenshot is Windows, all you have to do is press the "Prt Scr" button on your keyboard (usually in the top right corner). Then go into any picture program (or MS Paint) and paste it as a new image. Save it as a jpg file and attach it to you post here.

 

[demonbrawn]

Hm, whenever I press the Prt Scr button, nothing happens...

 

[soterman]

That's mine!

 

[BoOsTed SS]

I think I am near the top

 

[Steevo]

Everyone knows that burst speed is meaningless on this test right? It is just there to show how fast data can be read out of the drives cache.


So.


It has no effect on actual read time for game level loads.
It has no effect on audio or video editing speed.
It has no effect on startup times.



It is only used for files that are small enough to cache, and only if they are frequently modified, or recently read or written.

And seek time is good, but only useful if you have alot of small files that are badly fragmented or spread across the disk surface. Most large files are contingous if defragging is done occasionally.

 

[BoOsTed SS]

Well my average is 113.5 MB/s. Id say that is pretty good. I know burst doesn't mean much, but Id say I got a pretty good set up.

 

[t_ski]

Hm, whenever I press the Prt Scr button, nothing happens...

It doesn't seem like anything happens, but go into MS Paint and click Edit... Paste. You should have your screenshot. Just save it as a .jpg file so it's not huge (default is bmp).

 

[t_ski]

Well my average is 113.5 MB/s. Id say that is pretty good. I know burst doesn't mean much, but Id say I got a pretty good set up.

Nobody has beaten me yet

 

[Steevo]

Don't tempt me. I have been thinking about migrating our RAID 5 array to a PCI-Express controller to get the disk performance up higher.

 

[FOXCONN1115]

well heres my wonderful score 2x Seagate SATA 3GB/s 7200rpm 16MB Cache Perpendicular Recording Technology 320GB HDD's in RAID-0 on NForce 4 NVRAID socket 939