Show us your hard drive performance

TheBull · 31 May 2009

Just installed my new WD Black Caviar 1TB. This is the result,

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bloke · 31 May 2009

Andy Carr said:

Here's mine the OCZ Vertex SSD seems a little disappointing, anyone have any advice apart from getting another and using RAID

hows that disappointing? its got a good max transfer, good average and a high burst rate, the access time doesn't get any better than that. the only way you will get better results is a simple ram drive.

personally i wouldn't be complaining.

how much was it for that ssd?

kensiko · 31 May 2009

Andy Carr said:

Here's mine the OCZ Vertex SSD seems a little disappointing, anyone have any advice apart from getting another and using RAID

To have your full speed, you need to trim it. Update to firmware 1.10 (1370) and trim the drive.

Andy Carr · 31 May 2009

bloke said:

hows that disappointing? its got a good max transfer, good average and a high burst rate, the access time doesn't get any better than that. the only way you will get better results is a simple ram drive.

personally i wouldn't be complaining.

how much was it for that ssd?

@Bloke

Just didn't seem consistent, paid about £150 ouch that seems cheap now even though it was an OEM from Novatech!

To be honest wasn't sure what to expect but saw the Core SSD results at the beginning of thre thread and they seemed more consistent. You have have given me more confidence in the result I get
Kensiko

Thanks for the advice but I'm not sure what you mean by trimming, will look it up and see what I can do. From memory the firmware update means I will lose all data on the drive?

kensiko · 31 May 2009

Andy Carr said:

Thanks for the advice but I'm not sure what you mean by trimming, will look it up and see what I can do. From memory the firmware update means I will lose all data on the drive?

No, not with the bootable CD, fortunately for you. I don't have the time right now to explain what is trim, but you should definitely take a look at the OCZ forum.

Andy Carr · 31 May 2009

Hi

Just been over the OCZ Forum you gave me the boot up the rear I needed and have now upgraded the firmware. Also used the beta wiper tool and have posted the revised benchmarks here.

Thanks again

Pendaws · 12 Jun 2009

Here is my shot.
I am a little disappointed, I expected a little better?
Still only get 5.8 on the Win7 performance meter.

halo200 · 13 Jun 2009

Its not bad but im still pretty happy with a 150mb/s Average

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Brains · 14 Jun 2009

My Access time is high

how could I speed this up?

HD Tune: ST3160813AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 52.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 112.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 88.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.6 ms

Burst Rate : 171.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : -1.0%

Second benchmark with S.M.A.R.T disk enabled,didn't help Access Time

HD Tune: ST3160813AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 2.5 MB/sec

Transfer Rate Maximum : 112.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 77.7 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.6 ms

Burst Rate : 146.2 MB/sec
CPU Usage : -1.0%

Brains.

bloke · 14 Jun 2009

Brains said:

My Access time is high

how could I speed this up?

HD Tune: ST3160813AS Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 52.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 112.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 88.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.6 ms
Burst Rate : 171.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : -1.0%

Brains.

you cant, a better performing hdd. the access time is the hardware inside the drive. some motherboards might get a different access time with the same drive but at the end its the physical internals like the spindle motor and head magnets ect.