That is REALLY nice for just a single disc but, you lose in the access times dept.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixxxer
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That is REALLY nice for just a single disc but, you lose in the access times dept.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixxxer
mine is XP and I already have that checked and since my board is ICH10 so it is on auto. Is there anything I can do?Quote:
Originally Posted by james bennett
Only thing left is a RAID controller card. Like I said it is performing as expected with the set-up you have now.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr2sw21
2x WD 640GB RAID 0
2x Seagate 320GB RAID 0
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6243/asdfwi3.th.jpg
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7439/hdtunebz1.jpg
ludicrous access time
Q6600 B3 @ 3.6Ghz
1x Gigabyte i-ram with 64bit xp installed
30% CPU usage wtf
EDIT:
this make more sense
2% CPU
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/9476/hdtachxl4.jpg
I knew that I-ram was good but, I didn't realize there was ZERO access time.Really nice. I just don't like the limited capacity.
Supposedly the ACard Device was going to be out end of augustQuote:
Originally Posted by james bennett
ddr2 with up to 8GB dimms
http://www.acard.com/english/newstabpop.jsp?idno=81
I never heard of that one, it is better, twice the capacity of the I-rams. When they get over 10gigs is when they would be more appealing. By that time the Fusions will have gone down in price. I'm kind of commited to the SSD's now. (Invested alot) I figure if I get a good controller card and continue to add SSD's to my RAID0 I'll have SCREAMING throughput.Quote:
Originally Posted by Levish
no, it takes a single 8GB ddr2 stick for a max of 64gb for the 2 sata port model
WD Velociraptor 80GB - AHCI Clean XP SP3 Install
http://www.twilightstars.org/levish/vr80-1gbRam.JPG
Man that has a high burst rate! whats the difference from a regular raptor? I mean other than the higher capacity. Is it the interface? I'm thinking mine has a 1.5gb/sec interface
its a bit higher in sustained and burst and has ncq afaik, SATA 3Gb/s interface on the VR's, I don't own any 150's and 300's but I believe they are a bit faster than my 80GB models
That was the OEM model (that comes in Dells) btw not sure how a desktop version would differ (probably only slightly)
Will have Samsung Spinpoint F1 320's (HD322HJ) and a 60GB OCZ Core V2 shortly
Got a email back from Acard with regards to their drive, its been pushed back to October, really looking forward to that :D
two different Samsung Spinpoint F1 320's
http://www.twilightstars.org/levish/sam320gb.JPG
http://www.twilightstars.org/levish/sam320gb2.JPG
hp 36,4gb scsi drive, dunno the exact model nr. it's a hp bl20p g3 drive :p:
I haven't looked in the thread but I imagine this is a bit unique. 4GB CF 300X connected to a CF to IDE converter. All this PC is used for is surfing the Internet so space is relatively unimportant.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6..._TRANSCEND.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BTranscend.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...BTranscend.png
Proverbial HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820208418
Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822998003
Reason I went this route is because where the PC is located I was going through a HDD or 2 a year. It's hard on a HDD to not crap out in the Texas heat.
40+MB a sec is excellent for CF cards afaik
OCZ Core V2 - 60GB - AHCI on - XP SP3 - Intel ICH9R
http://www.twilightstars.org/levish/oczcore260gb.JPG
Will be re-doing with AHCI off
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...Untitled22.png
Western Digital 250GB 16MB Cache in RAID0
Models: WD2500KS + WD2500YS
Not bad for a single WD3200AAKS. :)
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...200AAKS-02.jpg
2 x 60GB OCZ core V2 ssd's raid 0 adaptec 2405. Just a couple of test runs.
Long test.
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Short test.
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Man your read/write levels are almost as high as mine and I have three SSD's. This leads me to believe if I got a RAID controller card it would increase my performance. I kind of figured it would but, I wasn't completelyQuote:
Originally Posted by dengyong
convinced I ought to spend the money on one.
mine's a single WD 5000KS
A pair of WD6400AAKS ' s on SB600...here 54GB Raid-0 Stripe shown (rest 570GB on Raid-1 Stripe)...
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...SB600-WD64.jpg
HD Tune: WDC WD3000GLFS-01F8U Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 77.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 122.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 102.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 7.2 ms
Burst Rate : 172.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 4.3%
Ok, I give up. How do you get the images into a reply in vista 64 Taking a copy doesn't seem to work nor does taking an image from the hdtune intself
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/gaVekUy5Vj...iQ57/thumb.jpg
2x WD Raptor 36GB 10k on NForce 550 board.
I wont get such amazing speeds if my X2 3800+ 2GHz is'nt overclocked to at least 2.6GHz haha.
2 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Raid 0)
P5Q3 Deluxe -- ICH10R Sata Raid
4x 150GB Raptors on a Areca ARC-1210 Controller. after figuring out how to really set the contollers settings in it's bios....LOL
WD6400AAKS
No fancy tricks, just ran it
LONG TEST of HDTach
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2702/hdtachdw3.jpg
4x Seagate 7200.10 500gb
ICH9R
64k stripe
RAID 10:
http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/8...ntelraine5.png
RAID 5:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/4...ntelraitq3.png
74GB 10000RPM WD Raptor (Windows System Disk):
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/2276/raptoriu4.png
250GB 7200RPM HITACHI Deskstar:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/6872/deskstarmp8.png
2x500GB 7200RPM Seagate Barracudas in RAID0 (Rosewill RC-211 Controller):
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5...udaraidrn1.png
ST31000340NS 1TB Seagate 32mb. not that flash but hey
Attachment 86133
Not bad rickvtv6, but i wonder how the burst rate is so terribly low...especially with a 32MB cache drive.:eek: Maybe it's the nVidia SB hurting it.
2x WD Raptor X RAID-0
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j2...quarter/RX.jpg
2x WD RE3 1TB in RAID-0
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j2...uarter/RE3.jpg
Happy with results.
Wow...nice result with the 2TB array, Empty_Quarter. 10.0ms access time. :eek:
tell me about it! dunno, you think its that? the nvidia drivers are up to date, but when you select the health tab it doesnt show anything, nor the temp, also if you select the info tab it doesnt show the buffer? windows recognises the drive as a scsi drive but its sata2? could this have any part of it??Quote:
Originally Posted by 1Tanker
Indeed, I am very very pleased with the results, and I hope to get two more drives and run them Raid-5.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1Tanker
In Bios do you have Sata Controller in RAID mode? If yes, then this maybe a reason for the non-reading temp and the 'scsi' instead of 'sata'....Quote:
Originally Posted by rickvtv6
As for the performance : yes, the nvidia can be the reason...I gained in average read rate & access time in an NV430 only by using Fernando's WHQL Pack drivers ...You can try them...
i have all the raid settings disabled along with the ata settings.
is there any other drivers for vista x64 these only state xp 32 n 64?
Thnx.
i connected a cheap sata2 samsung 250gb drive i had lying around and got double the burst rate but slight lower max. (pretty embarrassing considering that 1tb is designed for 24/7 servers)Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
i might try swapping the sata connector to a diff port later and see if that makes any diff.
the fact that the samsung showed a massive improvement on the burst rate to me shows it isnt a board issue. will post the shot later.
2 x Samsumg Spinpoint F1 HD322HJ 320GB RAID0
P5K Premium / ICH9R
GREAT i think i figured why my burst rate was so low, the jumper was in the drive limiting its transfer to the sata1 setting! wont be sure if that fixes it till this sat when i get my q9550 as the system is taking a break in pieces. the stupid thing is i have had the drive like this the whole time for approx 6 months and if it wasnt for this thread i would never have realized!
so thankyou fade2green514, if it wasnt for you i would have never realized the problem i didnt know i had now untill i d/l your link! lmao. look 4ward to the new post of what im hoping wil be an average burst rate with the q9550 :)
cheers!
Rick
Hey Rick, glad you fixed that..whenever you can, post the new benchmark...Quote:
Originally Posted by rickvtv6
Except the Sata I/II jumper which was the problem, which link do you mean that helped you?
Did you try the driver pack i mentioned and if so did you have performance increase?
Cheers mate
felix
Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
the orig d/l link on the first page for the HD Tune prog. those drivers were only for xp 32 64 so i didnt wanna risk it as i done another fresh install due to a d3dx10_37.dll file error with Vantage.
lookin 4ward to it this weekend!
:up:
Hey, going to drivers subforum's first page you could also find the drivers for Vista 32 /64...I used the "Special NF4 RAID WHQL Driverpacks" for my x64 Vista install on my NF4 machine...excellent results in contrary to the new-released 15.24 version...Try them and you'll see...
Quote:
Originally Posted by felix_w
will this work with the 790i?
never mind im a noob! lmao
do you think i should use this one? im not using RAID just the single 1TB and a storage drive.
2. New: "NF4-7 Performance Pack with modded 10.3.52.4 IDE"
ill d/l and once my system is rebuilt this saturday i will bench after the jumper removed and b4 the driver and after to see if any difference.
i thought i cooked the e8400 but i think it overheated somehow (never see above 56c) when i went to load a game it worked for about 2 mins then black screen auto rebooted then constant beep from the mobo, i diagnosed it to the processor as i got a spare crappy E21 1.6ghz duel which booted but i replaced the E8400 back in there and it rebooted fine?? but i aint riskin it ill just put it away and slap in the q9550. i think that might be a sign its got cancer??lol
i installed the version 10... as mentioned above, but im unsure if that caused the change as after i removed the sata1 jumper i was hitting a burst of about 81 once i disabled the enabled command queuing i then got around 160-170 instantly. a simple check box was holding me back. the drivers installed fine tho so there is no guarantee that it would increase it and i dont want to uninstall them as its running smooth now.
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now i just gotta oc my new q9550 :up:
PS. notice my last 2 cpu cores are sitting on 40 (realtemp set 100TjMax) due to stuck sensors, the chip was boxed up 1 month ago according to the batch sticker and i have had it for 24hrs, not very pleased :mad:
Hi there :-)
2x WD Raptor 73GB raid0 ICH9R
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/59552/Raptor%20raid0.jpg
1x SAMSUNG HD103UJ 1000GB
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/59552/HD103UJ%20test.jpg
Raptor 74GBx2 Raid 0 ICHR9
I only got this..
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/62/discolc5.jpg
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/d...jpg/1/w567.png
I got a P5Q Deluxe, 4850, 2gb ram and as you can see my hd is the samsung f1 750gb it looks very low on the transfer rate especially on minimum.. i was wondering im runing this rig with very very cheap 600w power supply that cost like 10€..
any ideas?
the minimum transfer rates is being affected by another app accessing the disk while you are running the bench (nearly positive of this)
a "normal" graph will have nearly no dips in it, and your low side would typically be around 40MB/s according to that graph (which still seems kind of low for a F1 but not terrible)
r0lfi's 1x SAMSUNG HD103UJ 1000GB is roughly what all conventional hard disk graphs should look like differing obviously in the actual speeds but the general shape of the graph should be like that
Nop i tryed right now restarting my PC and with nothing workin except HD tune i got 10mb\s on the minimum transfer rate, may my disc not working well or is it not enough power, like i said my power supply is not good at all..
im not home right now but i have 4x 10k RPM SCSI ultra 320 drives that only get about 50mb/s read. my access tim is nice aafter reading a bunch here at 7.7ms. is it my controller card tahts makin it slow? its an adaptec 3200s raid card. it has a 32mb SD ram cache. ill post results when i get home.
anybody checkout my results? looks pretty low on the Transfer Rate...
Have you updated your Intel(R) P45/ICH10R Chipset driver?Quote:
Originally Posted by Godmyster
fyi, restarting by itself doesn't turn everything off. Superfetch / Indexing Service / AutoUpdates (for anything) / Antivirus can all affect those results even if you don't purposely load them up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Godmyster
I think my p5q deluxe is up to date. i am not sure but it is strange i have so low transfer rate.Quote:
Originally Posted by r0lfi
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
--Matt
3 x 18GB -10k RPM cheetahs in raid 0. adaptec 3200S controller card...its pretty old. i guess tahts whats slowing my drives up?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...drivebench.jpg
access time is pretty good i guess.
Mine is also a Samsung F1 but 750GB how come i only get this?Quote:
Originally Posted by mattkosem
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/62/discolc5.jpg
2x Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500
RAID 0, 128 MB Stripe, ICH8R
I just purchased a 3ed MaXLine Pro 500. I am trying to decide if I should go with a 3 drive RAID 0 or a RAID 5. Would I get a big performance decrease with a RAID 5 ?
http://chuckbam.com/Posts/HD_tune_1a.JPG
2 x 300gig Seagates RAID 0 Only using 40gigs from each drive.
i.e. 80Gig OS Drive RAID 0
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB
This drive performs much better than a stack of different makes 250 GB drives I have. Most average about 50 MB/s TR.
I just downloaded HD Tune after seeing the thread. I have been using HD Tach. I like Tune better because I get almost the same results every time I run it.
http://chuckbam.com/Posts/HD_tune2.JPG
What power supply are you using with that HD?Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckbam
His sig says "Silverstone OP650 PS"Quote:
Originally Posted by Godmyster
--Matt
4x Cheetah 15k.5 146GB SAS in Raid0 w/ Adaptec 31605:
Highpoint RocketRaid 3520LF + 4x32GB OCZ SSD Core V1 Raid 0
http://i4memory.com/reviewimages/har...0lf_oczssd.png
http://fileshosts.com/intel/DFI/DFI_...tfs/hdtune.png
http://fileshosts.com/intel/DFI/DFI_...dtach_32mb.png
http://fileshosts.com/intel/DFI/DFI_...atto_256mb.png
2x Western Digital 300GB VelociRaptors - Raid 0 - ICH10R (Biostar Tpower) - Windoze Vista 32Bit Home
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Velociraptor150 'marks on X48 ICH9 SATA mode:
http://www.dawnitgirl.com/pic/VR150.gif
http://www.dawnitgirl.com/pic/VR150HDTP.gif
Not a bad little drive. :)
hawt IMO, with the latest rebate the 32gb are a screaming bargain paired up with a good controllerQuote:
Originally Posted by eva2000
2x74GB velociraptors Raid0
http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6...benchmaci7.png
Here is my 150gb raptor:)
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/9...vebenchcm7.png
what controller?Quote:
Originally Posted by pokerezzet
Done through a Inland USB 2.0 to ide/Sata adaptor
I'm going to throw this in the case and see if the benchmarks are faster there.
HD Tune: ST9120822AS Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 21.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 31.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 29.6 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.7 ms
Burst Rate : 25.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 7.9%
In case, connected to MB sata:
HD Tune: ST9120822AS Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 21.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 43.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 34.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.5 ms
Burst Rate : 104.9 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 1.4%
The USB interface probably limited the speed in the first, which was flat out to 70%, where both graphs declined at the same rate.
Add:
HD Tune: Maxtor 120Gb 2.5" via USB OneTouch Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 21.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 27.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 26.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 16.2 ms
Burst Rate : 20.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 65.2%
Slower flat line than the other USB connection, probably because it's powered through there too, where the Seagate had a sep. power supply through the Inland adapter off AC. Flat to 80%, dives off 45 deg. after to min.
I'm curious on those SSDs getting 400mb/sec, spec. the OCZ Core I, are you getting stuttering effects? I'm thinking about buying one Core II at new egg ($79 after rebate) and just putting my OS/Vuze/Office on it ... anyone try this?
they are fine if you take some precautions but ideally you want to run them on a caching raid controller, and the better the controller the better the scaling
Thanks for the quick answer!
85 GB free, single drive with XP sp3, 2 gb OCZ Plat. Rev. 2 800, AMD 5000+ 2.6 @ 2.8, HiPro cheapo 350 watt ps. Gigabyte GA MA78 S2H.
HD Tune: Hitachi HDP725025GLA Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum: 5.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum: 88.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average: 74.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 18.3 ms
Burst Rate : 92.7 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.2%
Not bad for IDE!
HP P400 with 4 x 146Gb SAS Drives :-)
thats pretty sad for a 4x drive array :s
latest firmware/drivers?
Yeah, I think two of my drives are poo. I backed up most of my stuff, just trying to get the time to sort it. Where do you get the FW for seagate drives? My controller FW is at 4.12. I will get the FW and model #s for the drivers tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Levish
Seagate 250GB Single Plate, OS disk:
http://www.allsinclair.com/gfx/seagate.png
Western Digital 640GB, Double Plate, Data disk:
http://www.allsinclair.com/gfx/western.png
I have a third 320GB WD but i'm too lazy to bench anymore :ROTF:
HD Tune: Hitachi HTS542525K9S Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 27.2 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 58.9 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 44.1 MB/sec
Access Time : 17.5 ms
Burst Rate : 74.8 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 53.1%
I can't post images for some reason.
I decided against the 30 gb ssd, I haven't the ching for 2 for a raid, and the battery savings for my laptop is only 7% from what I read, so I can't justify it like that if it didn't speed up my OS at home tons...thanks for this thread, it's nice to see what what's out there.
I'm waiting on a WD Black 640, I took the chance hoping it's as fast the Cavier, I'll post results if I can figure out how to install sata on my Gigabyte 780 board.
seagate does not offer their firmware's online, i believe you have to go through tech supportQuote:
Originally Posted by ben0
Cool, I will check that out! Thx :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Levish
The benefits of lots of RAM (ECC) and a 64 bit OS:
that sir is epicQuote:
Originally Posted by Speederlander
PROC: INTEL CORE 2 QUAD 9550 2.83 GHz
MB: ASUS RAMPAGE EXTREME
RAM: 8 Gig Corsair DDR3 1333 MHz
VIDEO: NVIDIA GTX260 896 MB PCIEX
HD: 2x WD VOLACIA RAPTOR 300 GB RAID 0
CASE: Thermaltake VH600LBWS with Liquid Cooling
PS: THERMALTAKE 850W
OS: Vista Ultimate SP1 64 bit
---------------------------------
Two 300G WD Raptor drives, striped.
Hey, that's cheating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Speederlander
The title says "HARD drives", not drives that you configured from your ram.
My RAM is "HARD". :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Salavat23
Hard drive world is changing, no longer just magnetic disks. Solid state drives are becoming more common along with lots of RAM, enabling RAM drives that are big enough to be useful. It's just posted for reference anyway. ;)
This is RAID 0 with two MaXLine Pro 500
http://chuckbam.com/Posts/RAID0_x2.JPG
This is RAID 0 with three MaXLine Pro 500
Burst Rate went down.
http://chuckbam.com/Posts/RAID0_x3.JPG
4 x WD1500ADFD Raptors on Adaptec 5405 controller in RAID 0 (512MB stripe and default 4k clusters) supported by one 1TB Seagate on a system configured for multi boot gaming not benching! maybe soon I'll configure for benching then we'll see what these babies are capable of :)
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4...ntraid0pf3.jpg
but that isnt bootable is it??Quote:
Originally Posted by Speederlander
..slower than the cheaper AAKS Cavier 640GB? Something in the background is causing a few dips...
HD Tune: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 Benchmark
Transfer Rate Minimum : 53.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 113.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 88.0 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.1 ms
Burst Rate : 118.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 5.7%
No, can't boot from it but it is automatically loaded on boot so that in all other ways it looks like a hard drive to the system. You can put any apps on it, just not the OS. Much like iodrive right now until their firmware update (but faster than iodrive ;) ).Quote:
Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer
quite a lot faster actually, was thinking of trying to replicate the functionality of a TMS ramsan with a 5400 chipset board and about 48GB of FBDimm ram and misc other stuff
Yeah, just won't be bootable. Try acard, it's DDDR2 based and supposedly bootable. Just doesn't have fibre like RAMSAN.Quote:
Originally Posted by Levish
4 7200rpm 250gb segate hdds, in a Raid 0
2x150GB Velociraptors 64k Stripe onboard NVraid.
here is my HDD - ok performance - did better back on my 650i board controller - have another in the closet unused and have been thinking of raid just for kicks
drive is Seagate SV35.3 ST3750330SV 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Here are my brand new 74GB VelociRaptors, two drive RAID 0 with 64k stripe...Intel ICH10 with the latest drivers, HD Tach quick/long bench used: