Show us your hard drive performance

[phazed]

Attaching my Intel X25M (80G) drive as well as my Intel/Robson Flash Cache Module for grins. I have a pair of OCZ Vertex 30Giggers at home that I'll upload later.

 

[phazed]

Here's the OCZ Vertex in my desktop at home (Intel P45 chipset mobo/E8400 cpu)

 

[ethereal]

here is mine



do u think this is terrible hd performance or it is ok.
I am using toshiba tecra M5 with win 7-last beta.

 

[digitalrurouni]

Read operations:
Min: 140.2
Max:214.4
Avg: 170.1
Acc time: 7.1 ms
Burst rate: 174

 

[bloke]

do u think this is terrible hd performance or it is ok.
I am using toshiba tecra M5 with win 7-last beta.

is that an ata133 drive or sata? excuse my ignorance but im unsure what type of laptop that is.

 

[Pl4y3rX]

SAMSUNG HD252HJ (250 GB)

 

[digitalrurouni]

I must say the velociraptors are incredible. Though it is quite surprising my WEI hdd score went up only 0.1 from 5.9 to 6.0 but it does bump my overall score to 6.0

 

[ethereal]

is that an ata133 drive or sata? excuse my ignorance but im unsure what type of laptop that is.

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I am using sata hdd...

 

[bloke]

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I am using sata hdd...

have you enabled the 2 boxes in the hdd properties/ hardware settings? it will improve performance but if you experience alot of crashes it may cause data loss. though i have not had any problems with them enabled on my desktop and laptop.

 

[ethereal]

First box is enabled by default. However, enabling second mark did not improve anything, so I unable back (just to be on safe, I dont want to use anything at this critical moment). Any other suggestion for performance improvements.

 

[bloke]

First box is enabled by default. However, enabling second mark did not improve anything, so I unable back (just to be on safe, I dont want to use anything at this critical moment). Any other suggestion for performance improvements.

no thats all i can think of unless others might suggest something, it might just be sata1 150Mbit/ps speeds which are pretty much the same as ata 133Mbit/ps.

My laptop is an ata133 but has bad sectors so it wont allow me to run the benchmark, tried low level formatting, running scandisk after formats but it just might be getting old.

 

[ciphernemo]

I tweaked my drive layout and settings and am finally getting good results on my Windows 7 RC-1 system.

• EVGA X58 A1 motherboard w/ Intel ICH10R controller
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• (2x) OCZ Vertex 30GB SSDs in RAID 0 (60GB vol.)
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• Latest Intel ICH10R drivers as of this post
• OCZ 1.30 Firmware updated on each Vertex SSD (no jumper used)
• SSD Write caching policy enabled in device manager
• 64KB Stripe size
• No write-cache buffer flushing
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• Intel Matrix software installed
• Write Back Cache enabled through Intel Matrix Storage Console
• No TRIM used

I originally tried these drives in RAID 0 on the JMicron RAID built-in controller and ports, but read times were not nearly as good with the Intel ICH10R controller when write back cache (WBC) is enabled. Interestingly enough, the JMicron controller was faster than the Intel RAID controller without WBC. But with the caching, the Intel controller truly shines. And it's real-world usage noticable too!

I used HD Tune to test everything (the Pro trial version) in order to do a write test as well. The write test was done without Intel Matrix software, and without WBC, but with the firmware and Intel ICH10R updated drivers. Many report that the sweet spot on these is three drives in RAID 0, but I am quite happy with two for now.

 

[pop pop]

Two 74 Gb Raptors (they're off the market now) in RAID 0...not too shabby...but still only a 5.9 WEI

 

[Hear2fear]

Not bad

Read operations:
Min: 140.2
Max:214.4
Avg: 170.1
Acc time: 7.1 ms
Burst rate: 174

That's not bad, here is my 2x150gb raptors in raid 0 with volume write cache back enabled in the Intel Matrix Storage Console.

 

[nate42nd]

This is my new Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD. Not as good as some here but pretty good. There's a firmware upgrade out there somewhere that improves these numbers.

 

[ciphernemo]

This is my new Patriot Torqx 128GB SSD. Not as good as some here but pretty good. There's a firmware upgrade out there somewhere that improves these numbers.

That's very good for a single drive. Now if you get two of them together in RAID 0 you'll probably hit high 400s for MB/sec read. And you'll get 240GB total storage too.

 

[nate42nd]

That's very good for a single drive. Now if you get two of them together in RAID 0 you'll probably hit high 400s for MB/sec read. And you'll get 240GB total storage too.

That is the plan. I can't wait. Seems like a good (maybe great) drive. I just plugged it in and put the RC on it. Seems nice.

 

[ciphernemo]

That is the plan. I can't wait. Seems like a good (maybe great) drive. I just plugged it in and put the RC on it. Seems nice.

Yup, the 120GB versions have a slight boost in performance over the 60GB and 30GB versions, though very similar. Two of these 120GBs in RAID 0 will be very nice. It will be just above my scores earlier in this thread.

 

[nate42nd]

We'll see. I hope I could find out soon but they are a bit expensive.

 

[DJG]

Here's my system 300GB RAID 0 portion of 4 Seagate 1.5TB drives. The rest is configured as 2.7GB RAID 10, which hoses HD Tune - it seems to choke over 2TB. I get 189786MB average read .