more serious HDD tester: post IOmeter results

**kiwi** · 12-02-2007, 06:57 AM

It will take a few minutes to set this benchmark up but IOmeter is a much better way to test a hard drive performance than Hdtach etc... Post also what setup you have

Here is a quick guide how to set it up:

1. Download IOmeter
http://www.iometer.org/doc/downloads.html

2. You can try opening iometer.icf file (see attachement) or set it up manually
Set target and disk size (8GB)

3. Create a new test

Access specification will look like this:

4. Last parameters

Then simply click start tests (green flag). Run time will be 5min*4=20minutes

It will save results in CSV file. Next you want to open the file in Excel and format to something like this (raptor 150GB raid0):

Here is another result from Gigabyte iRAM (1GB though):

**KTE** · 02-03-2008, 01:23 AM

That link doesn't work kiwi.

Update it with something like this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/

I ran a test on my laptop, will post on it in a few minutes.

**kiwi** · 02-03-2008, 03:37 AM

Works for me

Anyway seems that test is too complicated and nobody is posting results

**KTE** · 02-03-2008, 04:44 AM

It's working for me now, it wasn't before for over a day.

C2D T7500 2.2G / 80GB HD SATAI 5400RPM

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**BGVirtual** · 02-04-2008, 03:34 AM

4 150gb raptors in raid5

**kiwi** · 02-16-2008, 07:40 AM

BGVirtual:

That's really interesting. For small queue depth raid 5 is not good but for higher depth it gets better. Probably with more disks and higher depth it will be even better. That's why raid 5 is typically for servers and server applications

**freeloader** · 02-16-2008, 11:34 PM

3x320gb Hitachi Deskstars in RAID 0.

**Gen** · 02-17-2008, 12:40 PM

4x1 Seagate 500gb
Raid 0+1 ICH9R

**NapalmV5** · 03-09-2008, 04:09 AM

4x WD6400AAKS @ 80GB @ highpoint 3510

4x WD740ADFD @ 80GB @ highpoint 3510

**AuDioFreaK39** · 04-06-2008, 11:00 PM

**Mr.Guvernment** · 05-28-2008, 06:57 PM

good info!

**Speederlander** · 12-30-2008, 10:36 PM

8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 60 (4 by 2 configuration) on Areca 1680ix.

**Speederlander** · 12-30-2008, 11:49 PM

8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 10 (4 by 2 configuration) on Areca 1680ix.

**Speederlander** · 12-31-2008, 12:28 AM

8x 300GB Velociraptor @120GB in RAID 0 on Areca 1680ix.

**Levish** · 01-02-2009, 07:44 AM

Originally Posted by kiwi

Works for me

Anyway seems that test is too complicated and nobody is posting results

the results are a little more useful than simple HD tach results imo

**Levish** · 01-06-2009, 11:31 AM

This is a older server with two independent arrays

**Levish** · 01-06-2009, 01:29 PM

newer c2q based server but with slow disks ORZ

**Levish** · 01-06-2009, 02:13 PM

And last one for the day
Dell R300 1U server RAID1 2x 147GB 15,000RPM SAS Drives (finally something yummy) running Win2k8

**Nizzen** · 01-25-2009, 11:01 AM

Areca 1680ix 2gb + 10 Seagate 15k.5 SAS @ raid-0

**rge** · 01-25-2009, 01:27 PM

Intel SSD X25m

**Serra** · 01-28-2009, 10:33 AM

Excepting the OP's I-RAM tests (which I can't really explain unless the 1GB size makes any difference), the ACARD ANS9010 in RAID-0 with itself on a PERC 6/i appear to pretty well dominate at this test: