HD tune Thread

alexp999 · Aug 15, 2008

btarunr said:
For Raptor/VelociRaptor, the trump card is its access time.

Not really worth the price tag though. the WD6400AAKS is only £50. The velociraptor is less than half the capacity at more than three times the price.

btarunr · Aug 15, 2008

Think of Access Time as memory latency with RAM.

You can have 5 GHz RAM, but at 15-15-15-40 it isn't really great.

alexp999 · Aug 15, 2008

btarunr said:
Think of Access Time as memory latency with RAM. You can have 5 GHz RAM, but at 15-15-15-40 it isn't really great.

Would you pay over three times the amount for less than half the capacity and 40% reduction in access time?

Not denying they are good, but performance/$ ratio, the WD6400AAKS would win.

Someone with a really big budget could get one or two, same as they could get two 4870X2's for Crossfire.

I just found it interesting to see how based on average transfer rates the WD me and mullered07 have comes so close to a HDD that has a smaller capacity and bigger price tag.

Widjaja · Aug 15, 2008

Interesting to see the comparisons between the same HDDs.

Widjaja, Western Digital Caviar SE 160GB (Sata), 50.2 MB/sec

Widjaja, Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB (Sata), 85.3 MB/sec

Zyrocenus · Aug 15, 2008

my personal drive

ok heres the last one. Benchs from my own personal comp

Zyrocenus,86.1 MB\s, Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, 500GB, 32MB,(SATAII)

Cheers

Zyro

CarolinaKSU · Aug 15, 2008

Too bad they dont have 160GB SSD's yet that dont cost as much as my car. :laugh:

CarolinaKSU
Toshiba MK1637GSX 160GB (my laptop drive)

Deleted member 3 · Aug 15, 2008

I should fix my array.

powerspec · Aug 16, 2008

alexp999 said:
Not really worth the price tag though. the WD6400AAKS is only £50. The velociraptor is less than half the capacity at more than three times the price.

I find my Velocirapter well worth the asking price, but thats just me. capacity does not bother me as i have close to 3TB of storage in external drives laying around the house. And low access time rules!

farlex85 · Aug 16, 2008

Yeah the low access time really does seem to help. I haven't compared them directly, but I know in games that many complain of long loading times I don't have to endure them, they are always quick and painless. Worth the money, maybe not, I probably wouldn't buy it again.

yogurt_21 · Aug 16, 2008

Yogurt_21 Western Digital RaptorX 150gb (sata) 70 MB/s

Yogurt_21 Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB (sata) 47.5 MB/s

btarunr · Aug 16, 2008

DanTheBanjoman said:
I should fix my array.

uh oh... that 6x Cheetah thingy will eat mine without leaving bones.

Pinchy · Aug 16, 2008

Pinchy

2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB RAID 0 (single platter)

2x Samsung Spinpoint F1 640GB RAID 0 (m-atx rig)

btarunr · Aug 16, 2008

A more consistent score after disabling some services (AV software, network interfaces, etc.)

btarunr - 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 GB (RAID 0) 160.0 MB/s avg.

TIGR · Aug 17, 2008

Hi everyone, this is my first post here.

Thought I'd jump in with a few HD Tune benchmarks. I build custom computers for a living and usually use h2benchw for drive benchmarking but HD Tune is handy too. It's worth noting that these were casual benches done while the systems used were intermittently doing other tasks.

TIGR, old WD2500JS on Intel ICH10R controller, 52.0MB/s:

TIGR, 150GB Raptor X on Intel ICH10R controller, 70.5MB/s:

TIGR, 2x WD5000AAKS 446GB Intel ICH8R Matrix RAID 1 array, 64.3MB/s:

TIGR, 2x WD5000AAKS 107GB Intel ICH8R Matrix RAID 0 array, 132.3MB/s:

Write-back caching was disabled for the WD5000AAKS drives and enabled for the following Ultrastars:

TIGR, 4x 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar 1721GB Intel ICH10R Matrix RAID 10 array, 132.5MB/s:

TIGR, 4x 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar 558GB Intel ICH10R Matrix RAID 0 array, 323.7MB/s:

The Ultrastars are great drives whose reliability is greater than their performance. Intel's Matrix RAID is very well designed and implemented. The Ultrastars are on my personal system. If anyone wants more benchmarks, at the moment I can do up to 3x WD5000AAKS, and up to 4 Raptor X drives in any kind of RAID you want.

Bytor · Aug 17, 2008

One WD 640 GB AAKS HDD

Dark_Webster · Aug 17, 2008

Dark_Webster
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB(Sata II)
Average: 48.0 MB

allen337 · Aug 17, 2008

3 old wd raptor 36gig sata1 drives in raid 0

http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/2532/hdtunequ5.png .

The scores I see should be higher. Anyone using intel chipset in raid should go to intel.com and download the latest intel raid drivers for windows and install them then go to program files and open your intel matrix storage manager and then go to view and advanced, then right click your raid array and select enable write back cache and watch them fly. For thos with no raid go into device manager and find your hd and right click select peoperties and policies make sure cashing on disk and advanced performance is checked. ALLEN

Chewy · Aug 17, 2008

Chewy Samsung Spinport F1 750GB

I find my score kinda low, was expecting this drive to be faster! Ohwell its working good for me

lemonadesoda · Aug 18, 2008

Intel 865, AGP system. Still up there!
(non-optimised score... multiple windws/services running in background)

lemonadesoda, Samsung F1 750GB, 75.5MB/s

Jmatt110 · Aug 18, 2008

Damn my scores are lower than Chewy's and lemonadesoda's.

Jmatt110, Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750gb, 72.7 MB/sec

Jmatt110, Western Digital WD5000AAKS-00YGA0 500gb, 67.2 MB/sec

ntdouglas · Aug 19, 2008

Here's mine.
2 320g Seagate Barracuda's in raid 0 7200.11 16mb buffer each
126.6 average
ntdouglas

Laurijan · Aug 19, 2008

Username: Laurijan
Hard-Disks: 2x Maxtor, DiamondMax 22, STM3500320AS, 500GB, 32MB Cache, Raid0, Sata-II
Average Score: 164,5MB/sec

TIGR · Aug 19, 2008

Laurijan, those are good numbers from those Maxtors. What kind of controller is running them?

Chewy · Aug 19, 2008

Hey Jmatt, check out post #67. thats prob why. I have a Backup power supply/UPS so I put all the advanced performance options for my drive.

Jmatt110 · Aug 19, 2008

Chewy said:
Hey Jmatt, check out post #67. thats prob why. I have a Backup power supply/UPS so I put all the advanced performance options for my drive.

Thanks, but that was one of the first things I did when I built this computer

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