Show us your hard drive performance

[Jonicus]

Heres my lot. rather disappointed with my 80GB OS HDD, want to buy SSD

 

[Night Hawk]

Have a look at the 250gb ide here if you think that's bad.



Gee? I just couldn't leave out the usb flash drive to go along with it. Makes for an interesting comparison at least.

 

[xbxhkz]

Here is mine. Im running 2x 250gb 5400rpm SATA in a RAID 0 array in my laptop.

<img src="http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5190/capturep.png" alt="screenshot" />

 

[SusOfSeattle]

I need a little help understanding these numbers. Whenever my Mobo POSTs, it says ATA133 for my SATA 1.5GB Raptor. >.> So I'm going to be honest and profess what a noob I am to HD read/write times and speeds.. But I thought these SATA 1.5GB WD 10,000RPM Raptors could transfer at 1.5GB?

Should it POST as SATA? Am I missing something obvious (Like nForce 750i drivers?)

 

[Night Hawk]

That wouldn't be 1.5gb but more like 150gb for a Raptor. The basic answer to why you see ATA 133 when running any sata drive is simply due to the ATA hardware limitations seen on sata as well as ide drives.

While the sata bus is faster the hardware factor still comes into play there. The advantage of the Raptor drives is simply the higher speeds those are seen with.

 

[SusOfSeattle]

The capacity of the drive is 74 Gigs, as its a first edition Raptor. As reported by my previous Epox motherboard, it registered as a "SATA @ 1.5GB" (which I assumed meant the bandwidth). But on this mobo its reporting as a ATA133, which is obviously incorrect. Its uses a SATA cable, and the board is brand new, supporting both SATA I & II (1.5G & 3G).

I guess my question really should have been: Based upon those benchmarks, is something configured incorrectly, or am I indeed seeing the bandwidth of SATA 1?

 

[chev65]

Here is my WD caviar 250GB in RAID0.

 

[scaramonga]

My 3 x 320Gb Seagate 7200.10's in RAID 0.

 

[Night Hawk]

The capacity of the drive is 74 Gigs, as its a first edition Raptor. As reported by my previous Epox motherboard, it registered as a "SATA @ 1.5GB" (which I assumed meant the bandwidth). But on this mobo its reporting as a ATA133, which is obviously incorrect. Its uses a SATA cable, and the board is brand new, supporting both SATA I & II (1.5G & 3G).

I guess my question really should have been: Based upon those benchmarks, is something configured incorrectly, or am I indeed seeing the bandwidth of SATA 1?

The 1.5gb would be the transfer rate since that model sees a 16mb cache. You won't always see the 1.5gb rate however. The graph there doesn't show anything misconfigured since you are seeing the dropoffs slower drives tend to see.

That's simply the ideal maximum transfer rate under the right circumstances supported in the design. The Raptors are certainly most popular for gamers there however for the faster rates seen.

 

[Shuko]

My WDs: http://derfel.org/temp/levytperf.png

 

[Orbital Shark]

Here's mine

 

[harmann]

This thread made me feel pretty good about my non-raid drives From top left to right to bottom:

WD Caviar Black 1TB (boot)
Hitachi 7k1000.B 1TB
WD SE16 640GB

 

[Night Hawk]

Awww... crud! How do you keep your WD 1tb down below 13ms? The storage drive here doesn't quite match up to that.

 

[harmann]

Yours is the Caviar Green, not Black. ;D

 

[swarfega]

Might be an idea to get a caviar black for windows and use the green for storage.

 

[Night Hawk]

You mean I can't use the 500gb GP model for 7?! :shock:



That would offset the entire partitioning scheme here. We can't have that now!

 

[harmann]

Just saying... the Black is the performance flavor of the Caviar series while the Green is well... green.

Your partitioning scheme is quite... interesting. Are you mixing OS and data on the same partitions? 200-400GB are pretty big for OS :shock:

 

[Night Hawk]

Since I could end up wiping any primary at any time for a change in the custom installs here I often end storing some XP files on the Vista drive, 7 files on the XP drive, XP files on the Vista drive, and around and around we go!

The 1tb was a recent addon as well as popping the external usb drive out of the enclosure there for internal use to find out that was also a GP model like the 1tb drive. CarltonBale.com » Western Digital My Book - Opening the Case - Removing the Drive

When you work a little bit with video files and dvr recordings you soon find you need one thing for certain. "drive space and memory"! XP is still on since no one came out with video recording software for tuner cards that works on Vista and now 7 while the picture can be seen on the 64bit 7000 build.

Actually once 7 is final on the next host drive simply by replugging cables into different ports the present Vista and XP drives can easiy see an array out of those two with a 32bit/64bit dual boot on a new 7 host! That sounds even more interesting!

 

[TechOutsider]

5.7 on Windows 7 build 7057. Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3160815AS

 

[swarfega]

Since I could end up wiping any primary at any time for a change in the custom installs here I often end storing some XP files on the Vista drive, 7 files on the XP drive, XP files on the Vista drive, and around and around we go!

The 1tb was a recent addon as well as popping the external usb drive out of the enclosure there for internal use to find out that was also a GP model like the 1tb drive. CarltonBale.com » Western Digital My Book - Opening the Case - Removing the Drive

When you work a little bit with video files and dvr recordings you soon find you need one thing for certain. "drive space and memory"! XP is still on since no one came out with video recording software for tuner cards that works on Vista and now 7 while the picture can be seen on the 64bit 7000 build.

Actually once 7 is final on the next host drive simply by replugging cables into different ports the present Vista and XP drives can easiy see an array out of those two with a 32bit/64bit dual boot on a new 7 host! That sounds even more interesting!

Well heres how mines laid out:

WD raptor x + WD raptor 150 in RAID 0 for the OS and programs only
WD raptor 36gb for pagefile, indexing database and browser profiles
Samsung F1 1Tb for games only
Samung F1 1Tb for downloads, sundry files and user account
Samsung F1 1Tb for music and videos

The key here is to move pagefile and indexing off your OS drive.