Show us your hard drive performance

[kicker40]

Here is my new score.

Intel Core i7-870
Gigabyte GA-P55-UD4P
ZOTAC GeForce GTX 295
Kingston HyperX 8GB (4 x 2GB)DDR3 2000
AuzenTech X-Fi Forte 7.1
4xOCZ Vertex Series SSD 60 GB in Raid 0
2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB in Raid 0
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300 GB

Added 2 OCZ hard drives.

 

[Tieske]

 

[lovish]

 

[Ilya]

Here's mine:

 

[Robert Cartman]

2 velociraptor 150GB in RAID 0

 

[Trojandan]

Velociraptor

2 velociraptor 300GB in RAID 0

 

[swell9]

Is this considered good? E6600 overclocked to 3.4Ghz, and 4Gb RAM on 32-bit

 

[strat1]

raid 10

4 15 K Fujitsu sas drives in raid 10-

 

[tompc3]

2 velociraptor 150GB in RAID 0
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I thought it would be interesting to compare everyones hard drive performances with screenshots from HD Tune utility (get from HD Tune). Maybe after some time we could produce a results table.

So heres mine:

Im going to show you the single WD Raptor X results first for interest:

And this week I received a WD Raptor 150 which I have now attached to the Raptor X in RAID 0 (128kb stripes):

This is now my current OS combined drive.

So lets see yours and how they compare.

Hi Everyone, first post this thread really caught my eye as I am running
two WD 150g RAPTORS in raid 0

 

[Excessive]

Hard Drive Performance

Here is a benchmark of my RAID 5 Array.

 

[Everlong]

Here is a benchmark of my RAID 5 Array.

That's quite a RAID setup :shock:

 

[Parker]

 

[bloke]

Here is a benchmark of my RAID 5 Array.

12 raptors?????? damn thats alot of money, maybe you should have invested that money into ssd's?

 

[bloke]

well i got bored, some will know what this is others may not....

 

[Zinic]

well i got bored, some will know what this is others may not....
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Wow, that's the best I have seen.
Is mine any good? 7200 rpm. I think its bad.

 

[Thenight]

Samsung F3 500GB

 

[bloke]

well i got bored, some will know what this is others may not....
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Wow, that's the best I have seen.
Is mine any good? 7200 rpm. I think its bad.

yeh that seems ok, if you go into your device manager, and go to your hdd, are the performance options checked? (only the first one not the bottom one).
also if you go into the chipset (ide/atapi manager or something like that) in dev.manager, go through them and see if there is an 'advanced' tab or port tab, and see if any of them have a check box saying 'enable command queuing', if so DISABLE them as it increases performance. im not sure if the intel chipsets have that setting but both my nvidia ones do.
This is a screen shot of what the setting is:


and this is my HDD:


the other pic i posted above is a program that creates a ram drive, it takes a set amount of ram to use as drive space. but i just use it for experimenting with. thats why it has insane speeds.

 

[Zinic]

well i got bored, some will know what this is others may not....
View attachment 37077

Wow, that's the best I have seen.
Is mine any good? 7200 rpm. I think its bad.

yeh that seems ok, if you go into your device manager, and go to your hdd, are the performance options checked? (only the first one not the bottom one).
also if you go into the chipset (ide/atapi manager or something like that) in dev.manager, go through them and see if there is an 'advanced' tab or port tab, and see if any of them have a check box saying 'enable command queuing', if so DISABLE them as it increases performance. im not sure if the intel chipsets have that setting but both my nvidia ones do.
This is a screen shot of what the setting is:
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and this is my HDD:
View attachment 37824

the other pic i posted above is a program that creates a ram drive, it takes a set amount of ram to use as drive space. but i just use it for experimenting with. thats why it has insane speeds.

I don't think so.

 

[bloke]

Wow, that's the best I have seen.
Is mine any good? 7200 rpm. I think its bad.

yeh that seems ok, if you go into your device manager, and go to your hdd, are the performance options checked? (only the first one not the bottom one).
also if you go into the chipset (ide/atapi manager or something like that) in dev.manager, go through them and see if there is an 'advanced' tab or port tab, and see if any of them have a check box saying 'enable command queuing', if so DISABLE them as it increases performance. im not sure if the intel chipsets have that setting but both my nvidia ones do.
This is a screen shot of what the setting is:
View attachment 37823

and this is my HDD:
View attachment 37824

the other pic i posted above is a program that creates a ram drive, it takes a set amount of ram to use as drive space. but i just use it for experimenting with. thats why it has insane speeds.

I don't think so.

hmmm, you checked all the ATA devices? maybe your drive is a sata1 not sata2. but if it is sata2, then maybe check the back of the HDD to make sure there is no tiny jumper bridging it to sata1 speeds, when i first got my seagate 1tb sata2 drive i ran it for a couple months, then found this thread, tested it and wondered why it was so slow, then i investigated only to find the factory default jumper was installed to switch it to sata1, once i removed it speeds almost doubled! its got me stuffed why they would put a sata1 jumper on it in the first place

 

[Zinic]

yeh that seems ok, if you go into your device manager, and go to your hdd, are the performance options checked? (only the first one not the bottom one).
also if you go into the chipset (ide/atapi manager or something like that) in dev.manager, go through them and see if there is an 'advanced' tab or port tab, and see if any of them have a check box saying 'enable command queuing', if so DISABLE them as it increases performance. im not sure if the intel chipsets have that setting but both my nvidia ones do.
This is a screen shot of what the setting is:
View attachment 37823

and this is my HDD:
View attachment 37824

the other pic i posted above is a program that creates a ram drive, it takes a set amount of ram to use as drive space. but i just use it for experimenting with. thats why it has insane speeds.

I don't think so.

hmmm, you checked all the ATA devices? maybe your drive is a sata1 not sata2. but if it is sata2, then maybe check the back of the HDD to make sure there is no tiny jumper bridging it to sata1 speeds, when i first got my seagate 1tb sata2 drive i ran it for a couple months, then found this thread, tested it and wondered why it was so slow, then i investigated only to find the factory default jumper was installed to switch it to sata1, once i removed it speeds almost doubled! its got me stuffed why they would put a sata1 jumper on it in the first place

Umm it's a sata3 I think. It is connected physically into like port #6 or #7, leaving the first few ports empty.