Your Crystal Disk Mark Scores!!!

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Post a screen shot of your Crystal Disk Mark Scores. Please identify the drive(s), and/or the array, and controller. I'm curious to see how the different SSD's out there are handling the 4kb random reads and writes. Post all drives, old,new,platter,ssd.

Post a 50MB run, and a 1000mb run - Run All

Crystal Disk Mark can be downloaded here:
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html



Here is (2) Intel X25-M 80GB Gen2's RAID 0 128KB blocks on ICH10R on-board X58. Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (The array has been 100% written to - 40GB of free-space when CDM2.2 was ran)

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This is the same array after running HDDErase3.3 and a fresh install of W7x64

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Weird results imho.

It's a Raid5 of 4x1TB WD Black drives on a Dell Perc 5/i controller with 256MB DDR ECC buffer and the backup battery, set up with Adaptive Read Ahead and Write Back enabled, 64kb stripe.
 
XP x64 SP2, Classified 759's onboard ICH10R, single drives in the first two ports.

X25-M G2 with firmware 02G9
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WD6401AALS, partition starting about 60GB in
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1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 / ICH10R / Fresh NTFS format / Non Boot drive / Win7Ultimate x64

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3x Vertex 30GB drives in RAID 0 on an EVGA x58 SLI board's ICH10R.

Total cost of drives was less than $330 back in March 09. Array is 90GB capacity with 75GB free.

Win7 x64 Pro

Jason
 
80GB Seagate Barracuda IV IDE Boot Drive
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80GB Seagate Barracuda IV IDE Non-Boot Drive
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4 x 640GB Drives in RAID-0 Shortstroked to 400GB on Intel ICH10R

Meh... makes me want SSD's but I'm waiting till they're like $2 a gig... for a fast drive

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Kingston 40gb SSD used as my main boot drive. I am thinking about getting another one and running it in raid 0 but id have to buy a raid controller so im not sure if I want to spend that kind of money. I am guessing ill have to spent at least $150 on a raid controller.

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Depends on your motherboard, "fake" RAID-0 is still fast with onboard chipsets...most modern motherboards support it.
 
X25-M G2 160GB on ICH10R

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4 x Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ RAID0 on ICH10R
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SuperSpeed RamDisk DDR3 at 1066MHz
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InvisiBill said:
XP x64 SP2, Classified 759's onboard ICH10R, single drives in the first two ports.

X25-M G2 with firmware 02G9
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Here it is after flashing 02HD
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And after running the Toolbox Optimizer
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I don't feel these tests were controlled enough to use the precise results, but the numbers seem to be about the same, if not any better.
 
I can't find a link for the Toolbox Optimizer on Intel's site anymore.
 
2x80GB Intel X25-M G2 in RAID0 on Intel ICH10R, 130GB Array Size

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This array is about 3 days old and the drives were brand new from Newegg.
 
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OCZ Agility 1 120GB Firmware 1.5
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 222.132 MB/s
Sequential Write : 108.977 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 166.523 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 82.864 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 34.292 MB/s [ 8372.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 8.254 MB/s [ 2015.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 71.121 MB/s [ 17363.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 8.033 MB/s [ 1961.2 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 75.3% (89.7/119.1 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/07/31 16:22:32
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)


OCZ Agility 1 120GB Firmware 1.6
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 246.231 MB/s
Sequential Write : 181.383 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 185.310 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 156.012 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 34.389 MB/s [ 8395.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 10.179 MB/s [ 2485.1 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 71.321 MB/s [ 17412.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 10.150 MB/s [ 2477.9 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 75.6% (90.0/119.1 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/06 21:24:00
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)


Hitachi 7200RPM 2TB
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 118.390 MB/s
Sequential Write : 118.483 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 42.118 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 43.116 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.531 MB/s [ 129.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.177 MB/s [ 287.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.057 MB/s [ 258.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.167 MB/s [ 284.8 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [D: 70.2% (1308.7/1863.0 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/07/31 23:15:17
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)


Western Digital 150GB Raptor (Old Version, not VelociRaptor)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 90.030 MB/s
Sequential Write : 90.262 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 39.427 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 44.547 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.669 MB/s [ 163.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.352 MB/s [ 330.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.176 MB/s [ 287.2 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.402 MB/s [ 342.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 8.3% (11.5/139.6 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/07/31 23:37:57
OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x86)

300GB VelociRaptor
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 110.260 MB/s
Sequential Write : 109.079 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 48.626 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 66.156 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.702 MB/s [ 171.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.592 MB/s [ 388.6 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.895 MB/s [ 218.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.758 MB/s [ 429.3 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 25.1% (70.3/279.5 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/31 8:43:47
OS : Windows XP Professional SP3 [5.1 Build 2600] (x86)
 
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but for WIW

Seagate Baracuda 1.5TB *2 in RAID 0 on X58 board using intel matrix raid. (while streaming media, audio and 4 torrents lol), primary OS drive, single large partition
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 154.361 MB/s
Sequential Write : 141.203 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 30.551 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 27.744 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.369 MB/s [ 90.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.286 MB/s [ 313.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.140 MB/s [ 278.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.345 MB/s [ 328.3 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 94.3% (1317.8/1397.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/28 9:18:38
OS : Windows Vista Ultimate Edition [6.0 Build 6000] (x64)



same model drives as before (barracuda 1.5TB) but in RAID 1 gigabyte mirror. 120gig partitition, primary boot drive.
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 127.054 MB/s
Sequential Write : 73.348 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 44.072 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 48.812 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.626 MB/s [ 152.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.287 MB/s [ 314.3 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.657 MB/s [ 160.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 1.354 MB/s [ 330.5 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 8.3% (9.3/112.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/27 23:48:29
OS : Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 [5.2 Build 3790] (x86)


Remaining partition of the drives above, well now I know why I was having speed issues from this server now.
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 87.865 MB/s
Sequential Write : 70.055 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 28.952 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 42.996 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.343 MB/s [ 83.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.790 MB/s [ 192.9 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.579 MB/s [ 141.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.854 MB/s [ 208.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [E: 87.5% (1124.1/1284.9 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/27 23:58:02
OS : Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2 [5.2 Build 3790] (x86)
 
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Could you try 8000MB as well? If you scores are lower, this would be due to write-back.

But i thought ix means you run Port Multiplier? I wonder how do you get such high speeds. They look very artificial to me. For example, the four Intel SSDs are only capable of ~400MB/s combined sustained writes.
 
I did not see any selection higher than 2000. WB is enabled and there is 4GB of cache though. :)

Here's my most recent ASSD benchmark on this array:

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PCI-E at 115 MHz makes the ARC fly. Been running 110 forever and that's the breaking point of all my previous boards. Most Asus boards (P6t6WS Pro, P6T6WS Revolution, P6T7 "Supercomputer") lose their NICs around that speed. The P6T7 would crap out if both 480GTXs were stressed too.

This board is a Rampage III Extreme and keeps on going strong! I believe the USB 3.0 (NEC) controller is intermittent at 110MHz PCI-E and "gone" at 115MHz but I don't even use it! LOL
 
Blue Falcon said:
2x80GB Intel X25-M G2 in RAID0 on Intel ICH10R, 130GB Array Size

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This array is about 3 days old and the drives were brand new from Newegg.
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About 1 month in and the array is showing little to no signs of performance degradation:

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In fact aside from a slight drop in 512k random read speed the numbers are actually UP from when the array was new. That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it, uh huh uh huh!
 
Hi guys, sorry about big picture and a bit offtopic i'm in a hurry no time to resize :eek:

My 2x F3 1TB results seems a bit strange, shoould i get dips as this in the HD tune ss? are this results normal?




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Looks normal to me, but to get correct CrystalDiskMark scores you need MUCH higher test value than 50MB; try 1000MB minimum.
 
[LYL]Homer;1036363178 said:
psyside - try ALT + print screen next time.
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Thanks :)


sub.mesa said:
Looks great; 250MB/s = 125MB/s per drive; which is very good!
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Thanks bro! just one more question, why do i get so different results while i copy from 1 raid partition to another?

around 2GB of small files FLAC music, at the start of the copying process the speed is like 1GB/s then drop to like 300mb/s and in the end, its about 110/130mb/s,, so i re run the test again (same files) and the speed around the end of the test is like 200mbs/ stable? its a quite big difference.
 
HDDs are much slower when processing smaller files, since they have to seek. Speeds will drop the lower the file size, basically. You can see 0.6MB/s is the max for reading 4 kilobyte files.

Also, if your speed begins with 1GB/s than that means your OS is buffering; writing to RAM first. So the first 1 gigabyte you basically got for free in less than 0.1sec; after that you are hitting the real physical write speed. So if your scores start with 1GB/s then that doesn't mean the HDDs are processing that much; they can't and the SATA cable cannot either; not even for 2 disks in RAID0. You would need at least 10 HDDs to achieve that kind of throughput, and only if you write large files.

Furthermore, copying from one partition on the RAID to another partition on the RAID means the RAID array has to do both reads and writes. So if you get 10MB/s that means 10MB/s reading and 10MB/s writing at the same time; much more difficult than just reading or writing. HDDs are not parallel devices; they can only do one thing at a time. But modern Windows manages to buffer and cache properly, so the HDD will switch more slowly from reading to writing and vice versa; clustering its reads and writes as it were.

Conclusion: normal behavior.
 
WOW thank's alot man! i'm a total noob when HDD are in question, thats explain all! :)
 
I ran a few tests through crystaldisk mark. I've got a pair of new Samsung F3 1TB drives. They're just some drives I'll be using in another desktop machine. Here they're just a test to compare performance between different interfaces. I've got an Areca 1210 PCIe RAID controller.

This is plugged into an Asus P8P67 motherboard. With 16gb of RAM and an i7 2600k processor, running at standard 3.4ghz speed. The motherboard has two SATA interfaces, an Intel ICH10 along with a Marvell 9128. While the ICH10 and the Marvell can do 6gb SATA, this is a 3gb drive. I used only the 3gb ICH10 ports, not the two white ICH10 6gb ports. I'm not expecting it'd matter with these drives.

The installed OS is Windows 7 enterprise, 64bit mode. Straight from the DVD. No updates yet installed. Only the drivers for the motherboard chipset, Intel NICs, sound, an Nvidia GT240 video card and the Areca 1210 installed. No other software besides crystaldiskmark loaded. The OS is running from an Intel 80gb SSD.

I ran crystaldiskmark 3.0.1 against each configuration. Once as a single drive on the interface. Then a second time with both drives set up in a RAID1 mirror. Using just the setup defaults for such a configuration. I made no stripe size or other changes, I just went with what each one uses as defaults.

I'm sure various arguments can be made about better drives, other ways to connect, yadda, yadda, yadda... this is not that thread. Post your own and argue there.

Here's how the drives compared:
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And for grins, here's a run using just a single Intel 80gb SSD connected to a motherboard ICH10 port.
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Not sure why the Intel ICH10 mirror seq read times are so low. I ran it twice. The second time I let the system do it's thing with initializing the array first. It seems to have made no difference.

This system will eventually be using 4 2tb drives as a RAID10 on the Areca. I just ran these tests to see how the interfaces really compared.
 
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