Short Stroking 74GB raptor results

[AMD-M-DUALLIE]

Did some benchmarks and this is what ive got.this was done via a 20gb maxtor and win xp pro 32 bit.iam guessing is not good.what u all think.

74 GB unallocated
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4519/74gbunallocated.png

10 GB NTFS partition
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4770/10gbntfspartitionn.png

Vista 32 bit 10GB
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8323/vista32bit.png

XP 64 bit 10GB
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6091/xp64bit.png

[MooCow]

I think its time for an SSD.

[BlackTTC6]

I think its time for an SSD.

Agreed. Shitty 99 dollar Patriot SSD

http://i725.photobucket.com/albums/ww252/2MCHBoost/ssd-1.jpg

[Cyberbeing]

AMD-M-DUALLIE, HDTune benchmarks the entire drive (all 74GB) regardless of partition size. In other words, the benchmarks you posted are meaningless.

If you want to truly see the performance of your raptor short stroked, you would need to find a tool to limit the maximum LBA size.

[AMD-M-DUALLIE]

figured it would bench the whole drive.what tool i can use to do this right.

[Menelmarar]

Atto should let you select by drive letter instead of physical entire drive, IIRC.

[C-rizzle]

think HDTach lets you chose the drive by letter and it only benches the volume of that letter.

[Cyberbeing]

think HDTach lets you chose the drive by letter and it only benches the volume of that letter.

Unfortunately HDTach doesn't do this. If the drive has multiple partitions, you'll get something like this with all the partitions on the drive listed:
http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8352/hdtachu.png

In addition to ATTO, IOMeter can also benchmark by partition.

What tool would you use to set the maximum LBA size on Western Digital drives? Does Western Digital provide such a tool? If not, has anybody personally used a tool from a different drive manufacturer or third party and can confirm it worked correctly on WD drives? If something should theoretically work and if it actually does work can at times be two completely different things.