Show us your hard drive performance

[Bushman5]

all i got is this?

whats the verdict?

 

[Dave76]

That's a real nice system

Gonna have to do something about that HDD.

Prices are dropping on SSDs, with all them empty bays you surely have room for a little 2.5" SSD.

All you need, unless you have a huge amount of apps, is a 40-80GB SSD for OS and apps.
Something to consider

How do you like the H50?

 

[WukaChop]

Here's my Western Digital Caviar Blue doing things it's meant to do.

 

[Bushman5]

That's a real nice system

Gonna have to do something about that HDD.

Prices are dropping on SSDs, with all them empty bays you surely have room for a little 2.5" SSD.

All you need, unless you have a huge amount of apps, is a 40-80GB SSD for OS and apps.
Something to consider

How do you like the H50?

thanks! i'm having fun with it. as for the H50, i added a second fan in a push pull config and it keeps the CPU very cool, even when running GIMP and playing Crysis at the same time.....

 

[Dave76]

thanks! i'm having fun with it. as for the H50, i added a second fan in a push pull config and it keeps the CPU very cool, even when running GIMP and playing Crysis at the same time.....

I'm having a blast with mine, the i5-750 is a great performer.

That's some good multi-tasking

 

[riggs614]

How can I make my OS HDD perform better?

 

[David Ben Yosef]

Not too bad for a 250GB Seagate Barracude 7200RPM 12th generation SATAII HDD. Only cost 40 bucks, and it has a pretty good burst rate to it [considering my system specs]. Guess I can't complain.

 

[DirtyElf]

this any good?

 

[Zucchey]

Samsung HD500LJ

 

[mastypk]

Here is mine

Any better HDD available?

 

[GeneO]

Here is 2TB WD Green WD20EARS - 3 platter model ESATA connection followed by a 1TB WD Black running in low acoustics mode (it is a LOT quieter but doesn't suffer too horribly in seek times):

 

[Excessive]

X25-e 32gb x 5 raid 0

http://www.sevenforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=107799&stc=1&d=1288061882X25-e 32gb x 5 raid 0

 

[Dave76]

SSDs should go in the Show us your SSD performance thread, this one is for spinners.

Nice setup

 

[Michaelc]

Good info here.

After using HD Tune just to do a quick comparison and finding that my D: drive is almost twice as fast as my C: drive I will be swapping them over.
C: 3x WD 320Gb, D: 2x Seagate 1Tb

 

[Dave76]

It's nice to know exactly how they're running.

Nice find, should help things out.

 

[Michaelc]

Took new screen prints with nothing else running, here they are:- the first is 3x 320 Western Digital Caviar drives in Raid0 These drives three years old. The 2nd is 2x Seagate 1Tbye drives in Raid0 quite new. The third is 2x Hitachi 71(500) 2.5" drives in Raid0 brand new.
I have another pair of 750Gb drives about 2years old and not yet configuered in Raid0 to try a little later.
The fastest will go in my Main machine which runs Win 7 Ultimate x64 the slowest in my Backup machine which runs XP profesional x64.

 

[Dave76]

Looks like the 2x Seagate 1Tbye drives in Raid0 are the winners.

Quite an improvement from the 320 Western Digital Caviars.

 

[tw33k]

WD USB3.0 external:

 

[Dave76]

Nice external, will be a while before I will see USB3 here

 

[tw33k]

I just got a PCI-e card for mine (I have 2 actually. 1 is an ASUS U3S6 for my SSD)