post your hard drive benchmarks :)

[NapalmV5]

#73, i will get back to you.. In fact I got four more laying around

Yes! finally! i welcome the challenge, glad u do aswell

8x 10k raptor areca 1GB ddr VS 8x 15k maxtor intel 1GB ddr2

hmm by specs alone i should lose.. lets see!

btw, welcome to XS!

[smopoim86]

4 250gb hitachi 8mb cache in raid 5 on intel ich8r

[NapalmV5]

btw, i apologies for taking the fun outta the thread.. just ingnore my results and carry on.. lol

[metro.cl]

Is this any good?



1st place on our hdtach ranking

you can check specs here

[Nosfer@tu]

2 x 36 Gb Raptor ADFD

Love the new reversions and have 2 more comming in.

[fhpchris]

#73, i will get back to you.. In fact I got four more laying around

Wow, sounds like some crazy money in HDDs!

My four 7200.10s can pull ~310 mb/sec, so I guess having 4x 15k SAS and getting ~350mb/sec isnt too shabby

Lets see the 8xSAS benchies!

[Carpe^Diem]

Lets see the 8xSAS benchies!

Well, I need a new sas cage, and it is on its way to Denmark. The discs wasnt all that expensive. Some guy screwed him self up at a auctionsite, and sold me 9 for ~ $65 a piece

[Nosfer@tu]

2 x 36 Gb Raptor ADFD

Love the new reversions and have 2 more comming in.

Im told that 4 Raptor 36 Gb 16 Mb in raid 0 will increase search times

What to do, I have 2 extra onces on my tabel

[NapalmV5]

Im told that 4 Raptor 36 Gb 16 Mb in raid 0 will increase search times

What to do, I have 2 extra onces on my tabel

yeh thats what i thought until i actually tested.. read back 1-2 pages back, ive posted results just on this.

btw, ive read in that thread that 2 raptors is faster than 4.. reason i didnt post a response.

2 = 160MB/s
4 = 310MB/s

access time remains the same at least on my areca controllers

edit: some pics dont show up anymore

[Nosfer@tu]

yeh thats what i thought until i actually tested.. read back 1-2 pages back, ive posted results just on this.

btw, ive read in that thread that 2 raptors is faster than 4.. reason i didnt post a response.

2 = 160MB/s
4 = 310MB/s

access time remains the same at least on my areca controllers

edit: some pics dont show up anymore

And I dont even think I can run 4x 36 Gb Raptor, 16 mb model ADFD with my onboard controllers

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...98&modelmenu=2

Or will I be able to use all 4 ports on the ICH7 controller?

[pissboy]

For some reason HD Tune is reporting my array as 2TB, so I dont know the accuracy of its results, probably just a limit of the application. Array is on an Areca 1230, with 12xSeagate 7200.10 500GB, 256MB write through cache, 128k stripes, in RAID 5. I do know that the IOP is my bottleneck, and that the 1231ML controller should alleviate that issue. I do get higher throughput with 8 drives due to this limitation.

[koensa]

wow crazy read speads

[lawrywild]

TWELVE seagates????????????????!!!!!

[pissboy]

yes, works out to 5TB formatted

[lawrywild]

Wow, nice

Here's my 2x Seagate 7200.8 200GB

For some reason intel matrix says NCQ is not supported

Anyway.. 64k stripe

[pissboy]

Napalm- sorry but I must put the fun back in the thread. Please post some hdtune and hdtach benchmarks.

I've been waiting for Areca to release some IOP341 cards for a while, and the new IOP makes my old results look rather slow.

HDtach IOP331 vs IOP341


HDtune IOP341 (scroll up for 331)


copying dvds-IOP331 was pretty fast, read and wrote a dvd in a pokey 51s.


IOP341 isn't even in the same ballpark.

[Nosfer@tu]

Wow, nice

Here's my 2x Seagate 7200.8 200GB

For some reason intel matrix says NCQ is not supported

Anyway.. 64k stripe

Realistic burst speed Love the fact that uit is more than 10 x my burst rate HAHHA

[NapalmV5]

Napalm- sorry but I must put the fun back in the thread. Please post some hdtune and hdtach benchmarks.

I've been waiting for Areca to release some IOP341 cards for a while, and the new IOP makes my old results look rather slow.

HDtach IOP331 vs IOP341


HDtune IOP341 (scroll up for 331)


copying dvds-IOP331 was pretty fast, read and wrote a dvd in a pokey 51s.


IOP341 isn't even in the same ballpark.

^pissboy, LOL!

finally 500+ hdtach nice! thats awesome, watta a difference between the 2 iops, 300Mhz difference and it shows.. i got higher result with 7x raptor (460MB/s) than with 8x (410MB/s) in hdtach on iop333, cant wait to get my iop341 now..

check this out, iop341/342, page 10-11,
http://download.intel.com/design/iio/docs/31505401.pdf

yup, dual-800Mhz iop, now that wud be sweet.. its really needed for ~24 drives, wonder if areca will do a dual-iop controller..

if possible can u do the atto bench? u should be @ way over 1000MB+
download @ http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=207

my arc1230 1GB 8x raptor @ 100% capacity - 596GB

the 500+ write in atto should be 500+ read in hdtach but i never got it with iop333

will post benches when i get my 1231ml or 1261ml next week, hopefully..

[lawrywild]

Realistic burst speed Love the fact that uit is more than 10 x my burst rate HAHHA

Volume write-back cache ftw

[pissboy]

^pissboy, LOL!

finally 500+ hdtach nice! thats awesome, watta a difference between the 2 iops, 300Mhz difference and it shows.. i got higher result with 7x raptor (460MB/s) than with 8x (410MB/s) in hdtach on iop333, cant wait to get my iop341 now..

if possible can u do the atto bench? u should be @ way over 1000MB+

my arc1230 1GB 8x raptor @ 100% capacity - 596GB

the 500+ write in atto should be 500+ read in hdtach but i never got it with iop333

will post benches when i get my 1231ml or 1261ml next week, hopefully..

Is your array in RAID5 or RAID0? Mine is in RAID5 right now. I'm wondering why your reads are so high, that IOP331 does max out way before 900MB/s, perhaps its just the cache effecting it. I should put one of my 1GB DDR2 sticks in and see what happens.



If you want I can put you in touch with the guys I picked up my ARC1231 from. I don't think any retailer has them yet.

8anet was selling them before Areca was making them though, so who knows what you'll get there.

[syne_24]

So with the same setup and number of drives, the IOP341 is the fastest overall right? How about the IOP333, does it perform between IOP331 and IOP341?

[pissboy]

So with the same setup and number of drives, the IOP341 is the fastest overall right? How about the IOP333, does it perform between IOP331 and IOP341?

I'm sorry, it appears my older card the Areca 1230 has the IOP333 processor, not the IOP331, which appears on their lower end cards. As I found out, the IOP333 maxes out at about 8 drives in RAID5, and the IOP341 easily outperforms it.

[LorD_Kvadd]

My two Maxtor DiamondMax drives. They're really old now, remeber running RAID 0 on them back in the NF7-S earliest days Had some serious stability issues with RAID back then. The drives hasn't been formated for little more than a year, if my memory's correct.
RAID-0, 8MB cache, nVidia NF3 RAID-controller and a Turion @ 2250MHz


My Seagate drive. Works fine, got it from a friend as a birthday gift. Although he thought of the drive as defect. Had some serious problems running in his computer, been working fine in mine for little more than a year

[NapalmV5]

Is your array in RAID5 or RAID0? Mine is in RAID5 right now. I'm wondering why your reads are so high, that IOP331 does max out way before 900MB/s, perhaps its just the cache effecting it. I should put one of my 1GB DDR2 sticks in and see what happens.



If you want I can put you in touch with the guys I picked up my ARC1231 from. I don't think any retailer has them yet.

8anet was selling them before Areca was making them though, so who knows what you'll get there.

its RAID0, its that high cause of the cache.. looking @ ur bench u r limited by the cache

lol @ 8anet, i couldve order it when it came out but because of the holidays i just dont have the time.. after the new years.. thanx though, appreciate it.

[Mad_Man]

first rig in sig,
2x 7200.10 320GB, RAID 0, 64K stripe