How Do I Increase HDD Perf.?

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I have a 150Raptor X and ran the performance assessment in Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit and only scored 5.3. This is the lowest score in my system(see sig) and would like some suggestions for getting a better/faster score. Not that it really matters , though , as everything runs great. Just wondering.:rolleyes:
 
liquidfluidity said:
I have a 150Raptor X and ran the performance assessment in Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit and only scored 5.3. This is the lowest score in my system(see sig) and would like some suggestions for getting a better/faster score. Not that it really matters , though , as everything runs great. Just wondering.:rolleyes:
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buy an ssd
 
Don't worry about that performance assessment. It's kind of a joke in all honesty. You really need ridiculous hardware to break some of the "walls" they put in the numbered score.
 
From another thread here it seems that all rotational disks top out at 5.9 on the Win7 assessment. My 300gb VR is at 5.9.
 
If you are worried about HD performance the only thing you can do is maintain your drive.

Depending on your partition you may need to defragment, I love PerfectDisk10 for this as the Stealthprotection makes files contiguous when you walk away. It is also highly efficient when put side-by-side to WinDefrag (and offers proper scheduling).

Other than that... RAID-it. Get a proper XOR controller and run some SSD's or Raptors in RAID0+1 for speed/security.
 
His real issue is that the drive isnt very quick by todays standards, even when working optimally.
Any 500GB platter drive (select 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB) will walk on it for most applications.

My slower Samsung 330GB/platter 1TB drive scores 5.9 on the windows index.
While this isnt a direct indication of performance, my drives "average" sustained transfer figure is approx 10% higher than the OPs "maximum" sustained and almost 40% faster than his average transfer rate.
There are much faster drives.
 
Nenu said:
His real issue is that the drive isnt very quick by todays standards, even when working optimally.
Any 500GB platter drive (select 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB) will walk on it for most applications.

My slower Samsung 330GB/platter 1TB drive scores 5.9 on the windows index.
While this isnt a direct indication of performance, my drives "average" sustained transfer figure is approx 10% higher than the OPs "maximum" sustained and almost 40% faster than his average transfer rate.
There are much faster drives.
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Most definitely, my Raptor scores a 5.9 and my 2.5" 500 @ 5400rpm scores a nice 5.8 due to platter density.

The assessment isn't really a suitable comparison tool though, we should just try and forget them ;)
 
I am very meticulous about running maintenance so maintaining the drive isn't the issue. This drive is only about 1.5yrs old and still runs like a champ. I haven't done a whole lot of research on HDDS , let alone SSDs. Maybe I was just hoping for better from what I have. I guess that a SSD will be the next upgrade. Which are the fastest? I don't need anything really large as it will only be for the OS and installed progs/games. Everything else is stored externally on a Samsung 500gb Spinpoint.
 
You could short-stroke the drive.

Delete all your partitions. Then make your boot + application partition small (50GB or less), and use the rest of the drive for slower data.

The first partition you make will be on the outer edge of the disk, where data throughput is highest. You also benefit because you won't have to seek as much between tracks during random reads (the radius of the partition is very short), so you'll mostly be limited by the spindle speed.

Still won't feel like an SSD, but it's a lot cheaper to start with this, and then move on if it's not good enough.
 
I just picked up 2 500gig seagate baracudas 7200.12 and went raid 0 stripe and i average 185mb/second compared to my seagate 7200.10 200gig drive at 72mb/second.
 
i would think the assement is flawed,i went from 2 raptor x with a 5.9 to a patriot warp
ssd and still rate a 5.9, you think it would go up or down a bit.
 
frtl97 said:
i would think the assement is flawed,i went from 2 raptor x with a 5.9 to a patriot warp
ssd and still rate a 5.9, you think it would go up or down a bit.
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It's not "flawed," just weighted toward the SSD because the experience cannot be matched by rotating media. Even with two raptors in parallel in the app load test, the single SSDs would still be twice as fast, as they handle parallel random I/O requests better.

Remember, we're talking abut "experience" here, not raw block read speeds.
 
Do you think adding another ssd in raid0 would improve that score ? my plan is to get another as i do not have much space left on the current drive.
 
frtl97 said:
Do you think adding another ssd in raid0 would improve that score ? my plan is to get another as i do not have much space left on the current drive.
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I'm sorry, I completely misread your post. Thought you were talking about upgrading to raided raptors, not an SSD.

Are you sure you didn't forget to press the re-evaluate button again? My single OCZ Agility scores 7.0 on WEI.

EDIT: FOUND THE ANSWER:

The Warp v3 uses dual JMicron controllers, and generally sucks for anything except burst reads. You really should have researched things before purchasing, and gone with an SSD with an Indilinx or Intel controller. If you buy a second one, you will only be wasting your money.

Send your Warp back where it came from, and exchange it for an OCZ or Intel drive (or if you insist on Patriot, get a Torqx).
 
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thank you , that is the advice i was looking for , you are right i didn't research it, it
was an impulse purchase,but i am not really disappointed by it , i will not buy another and
wait until i can afford 2 better ssd's.
 
I have tried everything aside from the "short-stroke" technique as I just got everything situated with this fresh format. Sucks that 7200rpm drives are rating better than a Raptor. The drive really isn't that old - maybe a year . I'll just have to suffer for a while!
 
The rating isn't conclusive by any means. If you want a far more accurate test of storage performance on your system drive, get a stopwatch and time a cold boot. Then put in your other drive, image over the partition and get out your trusty stopwatch again. Maybe add one or two of your most common apps to the "Startup" folder if you want to go another step. My 15k.5 Cheetah also scored a 5.9, and it smacks the crap out of any 7200 rpm drive in the above mentioned test.

Dustin
 
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