post your hard drive benchmarks :)

[Kunaak]

Small Update. Write Caching enabled.

slightly slower, but higher burst rates.
personally, I dont care for burst rates.... it makes no difference if a hard drive can go super fast, for a second. I like constant performance, not occassional.

[CyberDruid]

Yep that makes my 4 Raptor RAID0 runs look slow.

Everest has some different numbers though...what do you think of the Everest bench? Is it accurate?

[Rubycon]

Same as b4 but a 73GB LD to decrease seek time!

[oli_ramsay]

RAM Disk

[zaim]

that's stupid insane!!!!

is the wd 640's best bang for buck and performance if wanna raid0 ?

[1Tanker]

that's stupid insane!!!!

is the wd 640's best bang for buck and performance if wanna raid0 ?

I would say they're the best bang/buck in RAID or by itself. I posted my 640 result(HDTach) a few posts up ^....but i reran, and got a very sizable increase-with no changes. Hey... increased performance(well....benchie) for free, i'll take it.

New run:

[ceemic]

Can someone help me please?
I bought a WD360GD 36GB Raptor SATA1 (second-hand) and tried to run this HD Tach test. The results:
http://ceemic.pri.ee/hitachi/raptor8mb.jpg
http://ceemic.pri.ee/hitachi/raptor32mb.jpg
How can the burst and read be so low?

Compared to my Hitachi T7K500 320GB SATA2:
http://ceemic.pri.ee/hitachi/hdtach8m-seek.JPG
http://ceemic.pri.ee/hitachi/hdtach32m-seek.JPG

I also tried the other jumper placements:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....hp?p_faqid=872

Tho, it all seems OK on win

[jcool]

Because its an old SATA 1 drive burst is low. Because of the nature of the drive, transfer is rather low (single-platter, two-headed if I recall correctly). Your HDD is perfectly normal, it's strength lies with the low random access. So as a system disk it would probably still outperform a WD6400AAKS.

[ceemic]

jcool, thanks!

[1Tanker]

Because its an old SATA 1 drive burst is low. Because of the nature of the drive, transfer is rather low (single-platter, two-headed if I recall correctly). Your HDD is perfectly normal, it's strength lies with the low random access. So as a system disk it would probably still outperform a WD6400AAKS.

I'll admit to never trying a Raptor, but when i set up my 640AAKS as an OS drive(XP-Pro-32) i found it very snappy. I assume the Raptors quick access times would make opening folders and apps very quick, but i found installing programs with the 640 was amusing....it just ripped through installs... i'm assuming due to the high STR's.

[Rubycon]

Ludicrous speed!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg

[jcool]

I'll admit to never trying a Raptor, but when i set up my 640AAKS as an OS drive(XP-Pro-32) i found it very snappy. I assume the Raptors quick access times would make opening folders and apps very quick, but i found installing programs with the 640 was amusing....it just ripped through installs... i'm assuming due to the high STR's.

The WD6400AAKS is a great drive, no doubt. Currently I'm very impressed with the Velociraptor, it matches the Savvio 15k.1 easily for single-threaded desktop applications and can nearly keep up with simultaneous requests, too

Rubycon, wtf is that

[adpr_02]

Ludicrous speed!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg

WTH is thet thing?

[biohead]

WTH is thet thing?

ram drive

[computerking]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME. MY main HD is Ludicrous SLOW!!!! and it's 80GB WD Sata 3.0Gb .......

[Pudi]

ram drive

1400GB ram drive ?

[adpr_02]

ram drive

So, how do I get one of them "ram drives"?

[biohead]

1400GB ram drive ?

can't explain th size. just the speed. plus the pic url is "http://www.dawnitgirl.com/pic/sram.gif"

So, how do I get one of them "ram drives"?

google "ram disk" and "gigabyte i-ram".

[1Tanker]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME. MY main HD is Ludicrous SLOW!!!! and it's 80GB WD Sata 3.0Gb .......

When's the last time you defragged that drive? Here's what my WD 80GB(8MB) IDE got in march/06.

[computerking]

I didn't I think from 1.5 year

[jcool]

ram drive

Thought so too at first.. but a 1,4TB ramdrive is virtually impossible. So either it's an error or a fake...

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

Ludicrous speed!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg

Holy crap! What kind of a setup is that from?

Ramsan? $200K

EDIT: $200K for the TMS 128GB version.

Also access times on that SS are 0.1ms, I would expect ~0.01ms for a DRAM based device. Maybe they are 4 arrays of ARECA's with NAND SSDs using volume manager? Anyways, Very Interesting

[1Tanker]

Holy crap! What kind of a setup is that from?

Ramsan? $200K

EDIT: $200K for the TMS 128GB version.

Also access times on that SS are 0.1ms, I would expect ~0.01ms for a DRAM based device. Maybe they are 4 arrays of ARECA's with NAND SSDs using volume manager? Anyways, Very Interesting

I'm surprised that minimum transfer rate is higher than the burst speed.

[NapalmV5]

linux eee 900 @ xp pro

[Just learnin']

250GB Matrix slice, 6X Seagate 7200.11's, ICH9, RAID0