post your hard drive benchmarks :)

[speedfreak86]

Here is what my two raptors on the new Maximus Formula got me.

[BTK]

hows mine?

250GB WD Cavair SATA 16MB Cache

can anyone tell me how to read this?

[speedfreak86]

Okay, so you see that you have a blue line that starts at around 62 and falls to around 34. This is the transfer time as the drive is tested from the inside of the platter to the outside. This is normal. The burst rate is the fastest that data can be transferred to and from the drive. This is usually aided by the controller/ the drive's cache/ drive speed. The little yellow dots show the time it took to do random access at various points across the drive platter with the average shown being 13.4ms. This is aided most by the drive's speed but the smaller the platter the better(your average would be much higher if you cut off the high points on the outer edge of the disk platter.) And lastly the cpu usage is... well it is stated as being: "The CPU usage shows how much CPU time (in %) the system needs to read data from the hard disk." But generally the lower the better, but for a single drive this won't be very large. The raid 5 drive setups will have high numbers here(unless using a controller with onboard processing) because calculations have to be done during data storage and access. It all looks fairly correct and normal based on what my 250 gig did.

[speedfreak86]

I just wanted to drop in and say that I have gotten my whole system up and running with two RAID 0 Arrays: 2 74 GB Raptors (ones posted above) and 2 500 GB Seagate 7200.11s. Below shows the benchmarks and I thought that it was pretty interesting.

[Vixx]

three raptors in RAID0

[jcool]

My little big Savvio 15k.1 on a crappy Promise TX2650, but kicking every 3,5" drive's ass regarding access time




Will give her a real controller soon and see what she can do

For those that don't know, it's a 2,5" SAS 15000 rpm drive from Seagate, featuring 16MB Cache. Currently the fastest mechanical HDD when it comes to access and IOPS, which makes it the fastest HDD anywhere except for transfer rates.
But that's not the best yet - put in a Scythe Quiet drive, this baby can hardly be heard, way more silent than a normal 7200 rpm desktop drive. Only you need a decent SAS controller, and they aren't cheap.

[NapalmV5]

4x WD740ADFD vs 4x WD6400AAKS @ HighPoint 3510

raptor

6400


raptor

6400

[Rubycon]

Areca 1680 SAS w/2GB cache; 6x Fujitsu MAX147GB RAID0 128K STRIPE

[eternal_fantasy]

2x Mtron SSD RAID0 16Kb stripe size on Areca ARC-1231DML with 2Gb DDR2-533 Cache

[Gogeta]

The SAS and SSD benchies make me

Hehe, keep them coming.

[the wip]

ssd's get me hard,lucky man

[mattd390]

Here are two of the new 32mb cache seagate drives:

A 750Gb



A 500Gb

[dc2]

2x 150 Dell drives (WD) 7200 Rpm 8mb cache running raid 0, 128k stripe

[Data_]

Seagate 320





Hard drives perfoms better when Windows is clean.

[-X-hellfire]

Seagate 320




Hard drives perfoms better when Windows is clean.

It looks capped at 65 MB/sec

[Lu(ky]

The Mtron Solid State blows away everything... I only wish... How much did that cost you like $2500.00

2 x Raptor X 150 raid -0- using the onboard 680i eVGA

[Richard Dower]

My two drives in RAID 0...does anyone have a Raptor firmware later then 00NLR5?

[Gorod]

Is this normal guys ? Just bought a brand new Raptor X and i am getting those horrible graphs Tested my old 250Gb drive on the same rig without any problems (WD2500JS @ eVGA 680i SLI) . What do you think - shel i return it / RMA it ? Thx

[Lu(ky]

[QUOTE=Gorod;2871960]Is this normal guys ? Just bought a brand new Raptor X and i am getting those horrible graphs Tested my old 250Gb drive on the same rig without any problems (WD2500JS @ eVGA 680i SLI) . What do you think - shel i return it / RMA it ? Thx


Make sure you have NOTHING RUNNING IN THE BACK GROUND or you will get poor results... Do not even move your mouse while using the HD benching.

[Lloyd]

anyone running 3x 750GB or 1TB drives in RAID0 on an intel ICH9R chipset?
Sorry to hijack but i'm desperate - should i try to add the latest driver - F6 style while installing vista?
Though it still says the 3x 750GB drives are not bootable in the raids ROM.
I'm stumped
I'll post the results for the 2 drives in RAID0 tomorrow (I hope i'll have the 3 running by then!)

[jcool]

Looks like your mobo can't handle arrays over 2TB in size. Bios update?
I know mine can do it (DFI X38 T2R)

[Lloyd]

well i was using the 1004 BIOS (latest beta) so i went back to 1001 and still the same.
Though when i flashed it to 1004 - it killed 2 of the 3 320GB samsungs i had installed, hence the upgrade

[jcool]

Strange. There are Raid controllers that can't handle over 2TB array size, but the ICH9R isn't one of them afaik.

[Lloyd]

No i know Asus i think have screwed it up! 1004 killed 2x HDs! After flashing to it - bare in mind i'm a very long time user of asus mobos and have never killed anything while flashing a BIOS (except a DFI 875 Lanparty many years ago - and never used them again)
Anyway i've posted in the Maximus Extreme thread - so i hope to get some answers - but the way i feel at the moment - that board will be lucky to stay out of the bin! Don't buy one!

[jcool]

I flashed my bios yesterday and loaded optimized defaults prior to flashing, which somehow killed one of my ramsticks, just like that. happens, sorry m8 :/
Get yourself a decent controller, RMA the two F1 if they are really dead and try again, it's all you can do... being frustrated doesn't help, trust me.