more serious HDD tester: post IOmeter results

[kiwi]

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):