Windows 7: Show us your hard drive performance

TechOutsider · 14 Jan 2012

Here's my Raid 0 array

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StalkeR · 14 Jan 2012

What you have in RAID ?

jloc · 15 Jan 2012

Is there any way to boost my performance and speed up my access time?

essenbe · 15 Jan 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by jloc

Is there any way to boost my performance and speed up my access time?

An SSD will do that dramatically.

Dave76 · 15 Jan 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by jloc

Is there any way to boost my performance and speed up my access time?

Best performance upgrade you can do is a SSD.

Tim91 · 17 Jan 2012

Here is my WD Scorpio Black 3200EKT that I have in my Laptop.

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Crunchy Doodle · 04 Feb 2012

After finally realizing one of my data drives was acting goofy for some time, I redid my system with new data drives and a new motherboard keeping my i7-970 CPU and memory sticks. So I set up a RAID 0 with two Hitachi drives for my data, and still have my good WD C: drive. Here's how they do their thing:

Bye.

PS. The ancient HD Tune 2.55 doesn't know about 4 TB virtual drives.

whs · 04 Feb 2012

Not bad for spinners. Nice for the data (if you move big chunks). But for the OS, I would go with an SSD. The access time on a spinner is just too slow.

Crunchy Doodle · 06 Feb 2012

When a 500GB SSD of good performance sells for $250, I will give it serious consideration. I've put small SSDs in my laptop and notebook with good results. I have a HTPC with a Z68 chip-set that supports using a small SSD as a smart cache for the HDD, which gives a bit of a boost, and SSDs are still too expensive for my desktop machine in my opinion. I say that as someone who once had their employer pay $1500 for a full-size 5.25" 80 MB HDD. That's MB, not GB. Yes, I'm that old.

Bye.

Quote: Originally Posted by whs

Not bad for spinners. Nice for the data (if you move big chunks). But for the OS, I would go with an SSD. The access time on a spinner is just too slow.

whs · 06 Feb 2012

Quote: Originally Posted by Crunchy Doodle

When a 500GB SSD of good performance sells for $250, I will give it serious consideration. I've put small SSDs in my laptop and notebook with good results. I have a HTPC with a Z68 chip-set that supports using a small SSD as a smart cache for the HDD, which gives a bit of a boost, and SSDs are still too expensive for my desktop machine in my opinion. I say that as someone who once had their employer pay $1500 for a full-size 5.25" 80 MB HDD. That's MB, not GB. Yes, I'm that old.

Bye.

Quote: Originally Posted by whs

Not bad for spinners. Nice for the data (if you move big chunks). But for the OS, I would go with an SSD. The access time on a spinner is just too slow.

I don't know what you are trying to do. On desktops, a 60GB SSD is ample for the OS.

None of my SSDs have more than 30GBs used for the OS. But, of course, I moved the user data to the HDDs. But on the SSDs I have the total system (less the hiberfile) all programs (and I have about 50 extra programs - but no games) and the pagefile I reduce to 2GBs.

Using an SSD as a HDD cache seems to be a waste for me.

On my laptops I use 80 and 90GB SSDs plus a big 32GB stick for the overflow data. Works fine too.

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