What benchmarks for HDD testing?

[marley1]

Hey guys -

just built my new system, and wanna test this Western Digital 250gig SATA2 16mb cache drive.

what can i use?

thanks,
dan

 

[morningreis]

HD Tach

 

[marley1]

 

[Ice Czar]

http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=Benchmarks


3. HDTach 2.xx

Strengths: Measures read and write STR. Presents a reasonable measurement of access time.

Weaknesses: STR is NOT representative of real-world performance. The STR measurements are taken from sample sectors staggered across the drive, often rendering results for RAID configurations useless. This is because this method often means a particular sample reading doesn't cross stripe boundaries, therefore producing results equal or similar to single-drive results.

 

[J32P2006]

http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=Benchmarks


3. HDTach 2.xx

Strengths: Measures read and write STR. Presents a reasonable measurement of access time.

Weaknesses: STR is NOT representative of real-world performance. The STR measurements are taken from sample sectors staggered across the drive, often rendering results for RAID configurations useless. This is because this method often means a particular sample reading doesn't cross stripe boundaries, therefore producing results equal or similar to single-drive results.

So what should one use ?
I tried that german one storage review says is number one but I couldn't get it to work.

 

[Ice Czar]

use them all but be aware of their shortcomings

if you have a LAN and a server IOmeter is perfect, its just limited when it comes to a single user environment

http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=IOMeter