post your hard drive benchmarks :)

**Levish** · 10-30-2008, 12:53 PM

thats pretty sad for a 4x drive array :s

latest firmware/drivers?

**ben0** · 10-30-2008, 02:24 PM

Originally Posted by Levish

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.

**NaMcO** · 10-30-2008, 02:44 PM

Seagate 250GB Single Plate, OS disk:

Western Digital 640GB, Double Plate, Data disk:

I have a third 320GB WD but i'm too lazy to bench anymore

**inmytaxi** · 10-30-2008, 11:29 PM

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.

**Levish** · 10-31-2008, 04:44 AM

Originally Posted by ben0

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.

seagate does not offer their firmware's online, i believe you have to go through tech support

**ben0** · 10-31-2008, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by Levish

seagate does not offer their firmware's online, i believe you have to go through tech support

Cool, I will check that out! Thx

**Speederlander** · 11-01-2008, 02:14 PM

The benefits of lots of RAM (ECC) and a 64 bit OS:

**nefariouscaine** · 11-02-2008, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by Speederlander

The benefits of lots of RAM (ECC) and a 64 bit OS:

that sir is epic

**Empty_Quarter** · 11-02-2008, 09:19 AM

1TB WD Black

**Galen666** · 11-02-2008, 12:40 PM

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
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Two 300G WD Raptor drives, striped.

**Salavat23** · 11-02-2008, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by Speederlander

The benefits of lots of RAM (ECC) and a 64 bit OS:

Hey, that's cheating!

The title says "HARD drives", not drives that you configured from your ram.

**Speederlander** · 11-02-2008, 07:49 PM

Originally Posted by Salavat23

Hey, that's cheating!

The title says "HARD drives", not drives that you configured from your ram.

My RAM is "HARD".

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.

**chuckbam** · 11-03-2008, 08:46 PM

This is RAID 0 with two MaXLine Pro 500

This is RAID 0 with three MaXLine Pro 500

Burst Rate went down.

**ihjones** · 11-04-2008, 05:12 PM

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

**MaxxxRacer** · 11-05-2008, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by Speederlander

The benefits of lots of RAM (ECC) and a 64 bit OS:

but that isnt bootable is it??

**inmytaxi** · 11-05-2008, 06:15 AM

..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%

**Speederlander** · 11-05-2008, 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by MaxxxRacer

but that isnt bootable is it??

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

).

**Levish** · 11-05-2008, 08:47 AM

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

**Gen** · 11-06-2008, 11:38 AM

**Speederlander** · 11-06-2008, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by Levish

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.

**shanems3** · 11-06-2008, 08:04 PM

4 7200rpm 250gb segate hdds, in a Raid 0

**BranNutz** · 11-07-2008, 12:00 PM

2x150GB Velociraptors 64k Stripe onboard NVraid.

**nefariouscaine** · 11-08-2008, 07:47 AM

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