[Mmmm]Homer April 4, 2004 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 4, 2004 Get ATTO, HDTach, and Winbench99 here, and configure ATTO as shown, then post your results here! Please include your system specs with each benchmark result post including hard drives and how they are setup, motherboard, cpu, and OS. Include drivers and chipset info if you know it. Winbench99 scores a long spreadsheet as the results, nice to look at but not easily posted. Also, it will automatically defrag your system, reboot, and run itself. The tests take about 30 minutes in addition to any defrag time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 4, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 4, 2004 There's my ATTO score. For reference WD Raptors in the AMDmb.com forums are frequently reported as 105-120 MB/sec for 36gb, and 120-140 MB/sec for the 74gb ones. My RAID 0 here suffers from being on one IDE cable so data is both coming and going. You can see it in the jagged read/write. If they were on separate channels this should be more of an arc or line. For comparison I have an identical WD800JB drive that is on it's own IDE connectors to the mobo, no RAID controller. As you can see it performs pretty good against the RAID 0. It's not that this drive is so great, again, it's that my 2 RAID drives are on one IDE cable. My mobo supports SATA RAID as well and we'll see in a couple of months when I get a pair of Raptors what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 5, 2004 Share NOFX Member April 5, 2004 (edited) Wow I did not know that you can have a raid setup on ide or i would have done this long ago... Raid setup is defintely on the to do soon list. I changed length to 32, helped some but still nowhere near your scores homer, would serial be much greater than yours? Edited April 5, 2004 by NOFX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 5, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 5, 2004 RAID has been available on IDE for years. I personally have run RAID 0 for a little over 4 years now (on IDE). Serial should be only a little better on it's own over IDE at this point. the Western Digital Raptor drives in RAID 0 score dowble what I get now with IDE not so much becasue they are SATA, but because they are 10,000rpm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 5, 2004 Share NOFX Member April 5, 2004 do the HDs have to be identical in size to setup raid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 5, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 5, 2004 In short, yes. Some of the RAID chip manufacturer's claim you can use different speed/size/brand drives but it's the general concensus that it only leads to problems and errors. I'd never use different drives. Only use the same brand/model/size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 5, 2004 Share NOFX Member April 5, 2004 yea identical drives sounds like a good idea, and you also say that 10k rpm drives own 7.2k drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 5, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 5, 2004 10k > 7.2k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX April 5, 2004 Share NOFX Member April 5, 2004 ahh it took me a few days of browsing newegg. Now I see why 10k drives own, there seek time is roughly half that of a 7200 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 5, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 5, 2004 It's more that the rotational speed at the outer edge of the disc is way faster, meaning faster transfers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 11, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member April 11, 2004 Homer, are you running software RAID 0 through Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL April 12, 2004 Share dwEEziL Member April 12, 2004 (edited) Bleh! Software RAID sucks. The "increased" performance doesn't really outweigh the processing overhead required to do software RAID. Edited April 12, 2004 by dwEEziL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 12, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 12, 2004 No, my motherboard has 2 different RAID controllers on it - Promise RAID and VIA RAID. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 12, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member April 12, 2004 Nice. Not that I'll be upgrading for a little while, but I have been looking at MBs with onboard RAID for awhile now...I decided I would never again go without last time I upgraded. Rid the world of bottlenecks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 12, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 12, 2004 The hard drive IS the slowest part of your PC. It makes the most sense to get a setup that is as fast as is economically viable. With RAM prices so high right now I might wait on a RAM upgrade and get some Raptors sooner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 13, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member April 13, 2004 I'm hoping we see something mainstream come out sooner rather than later to top 10k SATA so prices come down a little, just because I'm cheap. But then again, for performance (and high cost), nothing quite beats solid state HDs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy April 13, 2004 Share Slaphappy Member April 13, 2004 well golly gosh whould have never though I'd see fox in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 14, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member April 14, 2004 <rant>What, just because I've been harping about IDE being a horrendously geriatric technology that should have been outdated long ago? I mean, it says something when a serial transfer mode not only surpasses a parallel mode but in second and third-level specs blows it out of the water. But I whine only because I lack the ability to invent a better hard drive myself </rant>. But since we're talking about geriatric technologies, don't get me started on SMTP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 14, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 14, 2004 I'm not seeing very many benchmarks here you weenies. PM me if you need me to host a pic for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 16, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 16, 2004 I went ahead and did it - I ordered a pair of 36gb Raptors from Newegg. Will post up benchmarks next week when I get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox April 17, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member April 17, 2004 *Drools* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 20, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 20, 2004 The pair of Raptors sitting on my desk here at work are staring me down. "Feed me data! Load us up!" they scream. Only 3 hours until I can go home. Now if RAM prices will just drop a little I can get that other stick of 512. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r April 20, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member April 20, 2004 nice man and i hear that about ram prices..... i need another raptor and another 512 myself, maybe next week cant wait to see the benches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 20, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 20, 2004 So you are ending up going RAID 0 then? Good deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer April 21, 2004 Author Share [Mmmm]Homer Member April 21, 2004 So far.... Windows XP install = 10 minutes 20 seconds Service Pack 1 = 2 minutes 5 seconds Boot time = 27 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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