Your HD tune scores

[sniggle]

Can you run ATTO and post the results please? Thanks.

Here you go:

 

[Roliath]

3x 80gb intel g1's on ich10r. looks like I hit the cap of the controller.

2x 80gb intel g1's on ich10r

I imaged the install from the two ssd's, killed the array adding the third. re-created the array. aligned the drives using diskpart, booted with acronis b&r rescue media, restored the data minus the mbr, rebooted than restored the mbr. and booted into windows

total downtime. 20 minutes

 

[Schmiggy_JK23]

Before, 300GB Velociraptor:

After, Intel X25-M

Both are on Win 7 RC. Are the drops on the G2 normal?

 

[svyerkgeniiy]

I thought I had read here in this thread somewhere that Areca would be supporting the SSD TRIM command at some point. I sent them a question yesterday:

I am planning to purchase an Areca PCI-e controller in my next machine. I might be placing SSDs in the box. Do Areca controllers support the SSD TRIM command at this time? If they don't, will they be able to do so with a firmware or driver update? Would you be able to give a timeline on any changes in this area? Thanks.

Their response was:

our controllers do not support SSD TRIM feature and no confirmed schedule on when implement this feature.
sorry for the inconvenience.

 

[EnderW]

 

[ShiShKaBoB]

What is this, a 1GB Super stick?? Is that what I have to look forward to with the SSD's to come?

 

[SicKlown42012]

What is this, a 1GB Super stick?? Is that what I have to look forward to with the SSD's to come?

That's a RamDisk, where a piece of software creates a virtual hard-disk using system ram. Single SSD's are limited to around 220MB/s as of the moment.

 

[carlonchox911]

Heres mine:

I suspect that its dying (saw a delayed write failed, while copying files the counter goes up then down then up then down etc. (3 minutes left, 4 minutes left, 2 minutes left)

Can you guys see anything from that test?

 

[Vectrexer]

Boot: Dual Patriot Torqx (PFZ256GS25SSDR) in RAID 0 using the MB Intel chip.

 

[EnderW]

Boot: Dual Patriot Torqx (PFZ256GS25SSDR) in RAID 0 using the MB Intel chip.

working link

 

[sub.genius]

*snip*

Gotta love RAMdisks...

 

[Karndog]

 

[sub.genius]

*snip*

A tip for ya if you'll have it:

In Vista and Windows 7, Paint now has Crop. They finally added that most useful feature so, it helps when grabbing such items to the Clipboard.

Also, when a window is active, if you hold Alt then hit PrintScreen (so it's Alt+PrintScreen) you end up capturing the active window to the Clipboard, paste it into Paint or whatever image editor you use, voila... no need to crop anything.

But then again, HDTune has a built in screenshot tool: click the icon just to the left of the blue Disk icon (looks like a copy of two documents with the little green in the color, it's the middle one; the leftmost icon saves the actual data to a file) , it'll save a PNG of the application window automagically.

Good luck...

 

[EnderW]

A tip for ya if you'll have it:

In Vista and Windows 7, Paint now has Crop. They finally added that most useful feature so, it helps when grabbing such items to the Clipboard.

Also, when a window is active, if you hold Alt then hit PrintScreen (so it's Alt+PrintScreen) you end up capturing the active window to the Clipboard, paste it into Paint or whatever image editor you use, voila... no need to crop anything.

But then again, HDTune has a built in screenshot tool: click the icon just to the left of the blue Disk icon (looks like a copy of two documents with the little green in the color, it's the middle one; the leftmost icon saves the actual data to a file) , it'll save a PNG of the application window automagically.

Good luck...

a tip for you
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Use-Snipping-Tool-to-capture-screen-shots

 

[sub.genius]

Active window + Alt+PrintScreen = it's captured. Compare that with starting the Snipping Tool, etc etc... I find it useless and have never actually run the damned thing myself because Alt+PrintScreen + Paint - Paste - Crop - Save, done is about 5 seconds total for me (I take a lot of screenshots, of course).

To each their own I suppose, was just offering a more efficient way of snapping the current window, with two methods.

Keeping with the thread:

The downside of benching your Windows drive: ugly nasty spikes that hurt the average read rate, as noted in that image. When I first got the drive a few weeks ago, I did the same test with HDTune and it just being an extra drive with nothing on it; obviously the average read speed was higher (76MB/s) and it was a much smoother line... bleh.

 

[engiNURD]

...
The downside of benching your Windows drive: ugly nasty spikes that hurt the average read rate, as noted in that image. When I first got the drive a few weeks ago, I did the same test with HDTune and it just being an extra drive with nothing on it; obviously the average read speed was higher (76MB/s) and it was a much smoother line... bleh.

Not bad for an EAVS.

 

[Karndog]

A tip for ya if you'll have it:

In Vista and Windows 7, Paint now has Crop. They finally added that most useful feature so, it helps when grabbing such items to the Clipboard.

Also, when a window is active, if you hold Alt then hit PrintScreen (so it's Alt+PrintScreen) you end up capturing the active window to the Clipboard, paste it into Paint or whatever image editor you use, voila... no need to crop anything.

But then again, HDTune has a built in screenshot tool: click the icon just to the left of the blue Disk icon (looks like a copy of two documents with the little green in the color, it's the middle one; the leftmost icon saves the actual data to a file) , it'll save a PNG of the application window automagically.

Good luck...

Cool thanks, i had been using XP since release and only upgraded to windows 7 last week so im still learning about all the new features

 

[sub.genius]

Not bad for an EAVS.

Found the HDTach I ran on it when I first installed it, as a secondary drive with nothing on it, run just after I partitioned/formatted it with Disk Management. I actually put more faith in HDTach's results than HDTune for some reason... seems to be more accurate when I compare the results, even though HDTach is so old. I hope SimpliSoftware updates it with a truly Windows 7 compatible version soon (gotta run it in Compatibility Mode to get it installed and even functional).

A lot smoother, eh?

 

[ShiShKaBoB]

I ran HD Tune (8mb) several times and I continually am getting 147mb/s burst rate.

It's 2 Intel X25-m's 80gb G2's in RAID 0(128k blocks) on an Intel ICH10 southbridge, Windows 7 x64bit

I just ran this from a remote connection using logmein with the connection still open.. I don't think that would have a negative affect for a test like this would it?

System is fast as sh*t.. just wondering why the bursts are so low? Can anybody give me a an insight as to why my burst rate is so low?

ATTO on the way.

 

[Vectrexer]

working link

Thanks!

 

[RostaFarian]

What block size is everyone using using for their HDtune tests? Is everyone just using the HDtune default 64KB?

 

[bkrawk]

from left to right :
2xWD 500 caviar blacks raid 0 (system drive)
1TB caviar black
500gb western digital caviar 16mb cache

wonder what causes these dips

 

[jtg1993]

wonder what causes these dips

2xWD 500 caviar blacks raid 0 (system drive)

You pretty much answered your own question.

 

[bkrawk]

on all 3 drives though

 

[ShiShKaBoB]

What block size is everyone using using for their HDtune tests? Is everyone just using the HDtune default 64KB?

I used 8mb

 

[RostaFarian]

Take a look at 512kb HDtune block size vs 64kb on raid0 x25m. What causes such a huge variation in read performance with these settings?

 

[LightStar]

So here is mine

2xWestern Digital 640GB

And one of my 1.5TB wd green drives

 

[niemi]

2 x OCZ Summit 60GB on RocketRAID 3510

4 x Raptor 150GB on Intel ICH10R

 

[agrophel]

Gaming Rig
2x Intel 160GB SSD on Areca ARC-1231ML (Cache 2GB)

IO meter Random Read

IO meter Random Write

Filserver
10x WD Black 1TB in raid 6 on Areca ARC-1680IX-16 (Cache 2GB)

 

[thefeishard]

System Specs:

Alienware Aurora 2009
Intel i7 core 920 @ 2.77 Ghz
6GB DDR3 Tripple channel @ 1066 Mhz
Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 1.8 Gb GDDR3
2 x 500 Gb Seagate Barracuda; 1 TB Raid 0


HD Tune Benchmark Results:

System Specs:

HD Specs:

Raid Specs:

How did I do in my first ever Raid config? Any comments? How can I increase my access times without changing my raid size? Is there a way to shut off acoustic management? Thanks!!!

 

[thefeishard]

What block size is everyone using using for their HDtune tests? Is everyone just using the HDtune default 64KB?

Default stripe size is 128kb on my Intel Matrix Storage ICH10R raid controller... I have read a lot of debating over this... There seems to not be a good answer one way or the other. It depends on what you are using the drives for, etc. I am running 128kb because I read that for gaming, this is better... I have also read that for small, OS type stuff, 64kb is better... So, that is the best answer I can give you at the moment.

 

[EquaLiZr]

So what is the difference between Raid 0 and Stripe? I have 2 drives in Raid 0 but HDtune says "stripe"

 

[engiNURD]

So what is the difference between Raid 0 and Stripe? I have 2 drives in Raid 0 but HDtune says "stripe"

RAID0 is stripe.

 

[terayon1515]

Thought I'd chime in, drives are from sys's in sig.

Single 36GB Raptor:

Single 74GB Raptor:

Six WD10EAVS in RAID5 on ICH9R (with WBC-on):

Single WD10EACS:

Two WD5000AAKS's in RAID0 on 680i:

Single WD5000AAKS:

A degraded quad WD5000AAKS @3 RAID5 on a Highpoint RR 1640:

WD250 RE IDE:

WD320 IDE:

 

[jbloggs_01]

2 x Intel X25 M G2s in RAID0 on Intel ICH10R using a 32KB stripe in Win 7...

 

[EnderW]

4 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ RAID0 on ICH10R

 

[engiNURD]

... got some new screenshots...

Intel X18-M SSDSA1MH080G1 1.8" 80GB SATA II MLC SSD, from
DANE-ELEC DA-SDM25-80G-N-T-MK 1.8" with 2.5" adapter SSD Migration Kit

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA300

Seagate Momentus 7200.2 ST9200420AS 200GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache 2.5" SATA300

 

[sxulocktor]

4 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ RAID0 on ICH10R

wow, tell me how you do that ! i've 3 of these and i can't score over 280mb/s

 

[EnderW]

wow, tell me how you do that ! i've 3 of these and i can't score over 280mb/s

 

[2k3eblade]

Samsung F1 500GB

Two Western Digital 74GB RAID 0 - stripe block 32kb