Your HD tune scores

Old boot drive
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Old game drive
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New boot and game drive
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Not the best performer but I needed the space, looks to have slower access time + burst rate but higher max + avg transfer times than my 80GB seagate now used to store my movies
 
An overview of what's installed:

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My boot disk - 4x 74GB Raptors in RAID 10:

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My editing disk - 2x 1TB Hitachi 7Ks in RAID 0:

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Here's what the Hitachi drives both look like on the same controller but not in RAID:

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Here are the two old WD drives the Hitachis replaced:

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And here's what those WD drives look like now on my P5E3 Deluxe's JMicron Controller (connected externally via eSATA) instead of the Intel ICH9R. They are almost exactly the same:

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Both running on a single 3ware 9650SE, Windows 2003.

2 x 320G Seagate 7200.9 in RAID1. The 7200.9s show some age...
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6 x 750GB Seagate 7200.10 in RAID6
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Was surprised at how generally flat the curves were.


 
cell90 said:
An overview of what's installed:

My boot disk - 4x 74GB Raptors in RAID 10:

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Dude! What's wrong with your raptors? They should be hitting numbers WAY higher than that!

My 4 raptors in RAID0 perform like this:

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FuSoYa said:
Notice he is running RAID10, not straight RAID0
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It's true that I am in RAID 10. I have a question for you guys about RAID 10 vs RAID 0 for 4 drives.

In RAID 0, you have the information striped across all 4 drives, so when a block of info is read, you can read a quarter of it from all 4 drives concurrently. This would yield 4x speed, but due to a little overhead, it ends up being about 3x. Writing works the same way. Right so far?

I use RAID 10, which is a mirrored pair of striped pairs. Or maybe it's a striped pair of mirrored pairs. Heh. Whatever. My write performance can be no greater than 2x because I can't split the workload across all 4 drives, writing a quarter of the block to each. I write half to one mirror and half to the other mirror, and I can do that concurrently, so my write speed is about 2x. Right so far?

But shouldn't my read speed still be 4x? Does RAID 1 read as fast as RAID 0? In both cases they can read half the information from each drive in the pair. It seems like read speed should be the same, if I have the right principles in mind.

Another thing that contributes to my poor speeds is that these are first-generation Raptors (all but one). One failed last year and I replaced it. If you look at Hard Drive Member 4 you'll see it's got a newer part number. Maybe I'd get better speed just upgrading these things to newer Raptors. I am sure the newer ones are better even though they have the same name.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
 
My setup... 2x 80GB Raptors (16m) boot, 2x 150gb RaptorX (games/program files)

SHORT BENCH:

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LONG BENCH:

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HD Tune of the 80gb raptors:

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HD Tune of the 150gb raptors:

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My ICH9R running too many drives. (6 short stroked raptorX150's)

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The drives are short stroked on the RAID0 partition. The rest of the drive space is used for non-critical RAID5 backup. Critical files and client information are all transferred and backed up to the SCSI RAID array on my home server.
 
Here are my results, 2xWD5000AAKS. The CPU usage is off, because I was writing 0s to another hard drive at the time.

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8 individual Samsung 750gb results. The first drive seems to have the 334gb platters and 90+mbps average read like the 1tb version. All 8 came from the same batch.

The burst rate is being inflated by the Areca controller's 256mb of cache.

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144gb Raid 0 on all 8 drives
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First 2199gb of an 8 drive Raid 5
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4 drive Raid 5, very clean access times
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4 drive Raid 0 on the Areca
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Intel ICH9R Raid 5 with 4 drives
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Intel ICH9R Raid 0 with 4 drives
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1gb ram drive. For kicks.
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Hitachi 1tb, system in use while benched. This drive has great single user performance.
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interesting info romir, I just received my samsung 750 from zipzoom, I'm hoping it will turn out to be the 334gb platter version, I'll post hdtune results when i hook it up
 
Ok I'm disapointed with my samsung

Read
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Write
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I also just got my new single platter wd 3200aaks drives

Read
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Write
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Disk 2 Read
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Write
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Not sure what I'm going to do with those yet, maybe raid 0 for OS drive
 
Green Power drive. Also could be limited to my sata150 controller

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Write performance on the 334gb platter 750gb drive. Looks like he controller cache interfered.
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4 drive Samsung F1 750gb Raid 5 on the Areca. Cpu% was affected by background tasks.
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4 drive with Intel ICHR9
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2 x 500GB Seagate 7200.11 32m drives, using matrix raid, 260gb main / rest data =p
big diff in performance too

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Perdy straight linez

8 x 750 Seagate 7200.10's with a Perc5/i off ebay for $100... :D
 
@ Blazestorm
Great, now I want my own Hardware RAID card. :)

Anyway, some screenies:
Seagate 7200.11 1TB HDD:
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Seagate 7200.10 320GB HDD:
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Seagate 7200.9 160GB HDD:
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Seagate 7200.8 400GB HDD:
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w/"Enable Advanced Performance" unchecked:
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w/"Enable Advanced Performance" checked:
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It makes a difference. I didn't even know about this option until recently...
 
Two brand new 500GB Seagate Barracudas 7200.11 32MB cache in striped RAID0 (32kb) on Intel P35 motherboard.

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Model number: ST3500320AS
Firmware: SD15
Date code: 08411 (11 April 2008)
Made in Thailand
 
2 x 1TB 7200.11 drives RAID0. Not to bad of a score considering that they are my OS drives and Vista is doing all of its usual HDD thrashing in the background.

I still haven't gotten over the size yet.

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2 WD 150GB Raptors Raid0 & 2 WD 1TB GP raid1

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NOTE: cpu usage is 100% due to SMP folding :D
 
hey guys, im after a new FAST rig, £100 is my limit (may go alittle over if needed)

2x F1 500GB RAID 0
1x F1 1TB

any other suggestions? this would be for everything like my OS programs games etc
 
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