Trevor Posted November 6, 2005 is that a 5400RPM 2MB drive? Its 7200 8mb, sucks compared to a raptor :tooth: lol, nevermind about it sucking compared to a raptor, all I did was change the ide cable and the speeds sky rocketed! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor Posted November 6, 2005 Btw also a 200gb caviar I believe 2mb cache Nice speeds too An older 60gb 2mb cache, and as loud as a jet engine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor Posted November 6, 2005 Btw why does my 36gb raptor bench so slow with hd-tach? It seems like normal in the real world but I don't know. I'm not very used to atto so I don't know if my numbers are good or bad with it. Hd-tach: Atto: This is on a sil3112r raid controller. It could just be a driver problem with the wierd way I installed windows, but let me know if the atto scores a really bad and I will see from there. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fatawan Posted November 7, 2005 Does anyone have a SCSI HD setup they could benchmark and share with us? Where is Bob? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
red930 Posted November 7, 2005 I have a 10,000rpm Seagate 73Gb and a 15,000rpm Maxtor 15K. I'll get benchies on them when I get off of work. Does anyone have a SCSI HD setup they could benchmark and share with us? Where is Bob? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fatawan Posted November 8, 2005 I look forward to the results Goob! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soundx98 Posted November 8, 2005 A Single SCSI drive vs 2x Raptors? - Bring it on http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...9&postcount=641 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tiko Posted November 8, 2005 Hi, I thought that thye access time for my hd was 8.9ms, but the graph shows 14ms, http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDr..._SP2004C_sp.htm also do you guys use a paging file, some places people do some don't, my pc is overclocked and i do play the latest games and does the graph below look OK, thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Trevor Posted November 8, 2005 That looks right a 36gb raptor is rated at about 5.4ms and mine gets around 8.8ms so you getting 14 is normal(all of my 7200rpm drives get around 14ms). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
soundx98 Posted November 8, 2005 I hope this article from "Storage Review" puts the total picture into perspective for you. A lot of factors are involved in access time. http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/access Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LanceDiamond Posted November 9, 2005 Changed stripe size from last post... 3 x 250gb Hitach SATA2 RAID0 16k stripe size - previous post was 64k (default) stripe size 4k cluster size SATA2 & spread spectrum enabled via Feature Tools XP SP2 + updates & drivers I booted and ran each benchmark 3 times per suggestion of someone in this thread. I've posted the 3rd run of each - the results were different on each run. In HDTach, burst rate ranged from 332mb/sec to 355mb/sec and average ranged from 145.4mb/sec to 150.3mb/sec. In ATTO the first and third runs were pretty similar and all the numbers in the middle run were lower (write only once went above 87k in the 2nd ATTO run - no clue why.) I notice with 16k stripe, the graph in HDTach is much more spikey - but the average comes out the about the same - around 145mb/sec - as 64k stripe size. Edit: I also would love to see the SCSI results from goob for comparison! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sparkie34 Posted November 9, 2005 Question. When I set up a fresh raid array, do I run the hitachi program from the floppy to set my drives to sataII before or after I install windows? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
