Show your HD Tune results for RAID and Single drive [Archive]

pa9797

18-05-2008, 11:06 PM

I am trying to create this thread so that everyone can see the performance of different HDD brands and models before u make your decision to buy. please keep this thread alive

You can download the HD Tune 2.55 from the link below:

http://www.hdtune.com/

Please spell your HDD Info with the following format:

HDD Brand:
Model (Optional)
Enterprise or Consumer Storage:
RAID 0/5 or Single:
Capacity:
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2:
RPM:

I start first:

HDD Brand: Seagate Barracuda
Model (Optional): ST3500320NS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2x500GB = 1000GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM:7200

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_-1.png

Then my Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250GB SATA 2 8Mb Cache:

HDD Brand: Seagate Momentus 5400.4
Model (Optional): ST9250827AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer Laptop Storage
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 250GB
Cache: 8mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 5400

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_ST9250827AS.png

pa9797

18-05-2008, 11:15 PM

HDD Brand: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
Model (Optional): ST3500620AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 5
Capacity: 2x500GB = 1000GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_IntelRaid5Volume.png

HDD Brand: Samsung F1
Model (Optional): HD753LJ
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 750GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_SAMSUNG_HD753LJ-1.png

HDD Brand: Samsung F1
Model (Optional): HD753LJ
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2x750GB = 1500GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_WBC.png

stomper

19-05-2008, 12:09 AM

HDD Brand: Western Digital Raptor (74GB)
Model (Optional):
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2x74GB = 1480GB
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2: SATA
RPM: 10,000

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/5118/35231231tm0.jpg

HDD Brand: Hitachi 7K250
Model (Optional): HDT22525DLA380
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 250GB
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7,200

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/971/80037586at7.jpg

HDD Brand: Samsung F1
Model (Optional): HD753LJ
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 750GB
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7,200

http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2408/61727241om2.jpg

HDD Brand: Western Digital Enterprise
Model (Optional): WD5000YS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 500GB
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7,200

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8136/29857280uy7.jpg

durandal70

19-05-2008, 12:18 AM

added HDtach for comparison...seems to be reading different burst rate though

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 7200.10
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2X250
Cache: 16mb
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200rpm

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b8/durandal70/raid0.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b8/durandal70/raid0A.jpg

HDD Brand: Western Digital
Model (Optional) 5000AAKS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 500GB
Cache: 16mb
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200rpm

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b8/durandal70/single.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b8/durandal70/singleA.jpg

jtchoy

19-05-2008, 12:24 AM

Wah, nice! :D

Mine nothing to bench... :(

elu

19-05-2008, 02:20 AM

HDD Brand: Western Digital
Model (Optional): Raptor ADFD-NLR5
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2X36
Cache: 16mb
SATA or SATA 2: SATA
RPM: 10,000rpm

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5209/96010138re8.jpg

pa9797

19-05-2008, 05:58 AM

speedknight

19-05-2008, 10:40 AM

HDD Brand:Hitachi-IBM Travelstar
Model (Optional):HTS721080G9AT00
Enterprise or Consumer Storage:Consumer(Laptop)
RAID 0/5 or Single:Single
Capacity:80GB
Cache:8MB
SATA or SATA 2:Non,its a PATA :(
RPM: 7200

Results:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v168/speedknight/17fa4544.jpg

pa9797

19-05-2008, 10:42 AM

trichard

19-05-2008, 10:48 AM

http://i25.tinypic.com/2l8ays.jpg

HDD Brand: Western Digital Raptor (150GB)
Model (Optional):
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 150GB
Cache:
SATA or SATA 2: SATA
RPM: 10,000

I have another 150GB spare but no space to connect up in my rig liao ....else can run Raid 0 .

Now it is just hot spare .

speedknight

19-05-2008, 10:48 AM

good access speed for a lappy storage even though is pata

ya.....but this bugger cost me $319 for 80GB about 2 years ago performance better be good,which it is :D

pa9797

19-05-2008, 11:24 AM

lemonn

19-05-2008, 11:51 AM

http://i29.tinypic.com/24l32nm.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Model (Optional): ST3500630AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 500GB
Cache: 16mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i25.tinypic.com/2wgu8ma.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Model (Optional): ST3160815AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2x160GB = 320GB
Cache: 16mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

naro

19-05-2008, 12:58 PM

Wah great. we have a list of HDD brands , models and combo and now it seems that the 74GB Raptor in RAID 0 combi runs faster in access speed of 8.4ms. ANyone who has one Raptor 74GB or 150GB can show some results.

Naro show your SCSI drives too leh

Woo.. I've been called upon!!!

Test setup:
Intel E6300
Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro
2 x 1gb Kingston DDR2-533
Hitachi T7K250

SAS controller:
Adaptec 4805SAS without BBU

HDD Brand: Seagate Savvio
Model (Optional): ST936751SS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single and 2 in Raid 0
Capacity: 36GB each
Cache: 16MB cache
SATA or SATA 2: SAS
RPM: 15k

Performance of individual drives
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/narofx/Gadgets/Savvio15k.jpg

Performance of both in Raid 0 with stripe size of 64kb (did 2 tests)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/narofx/Gadgets/Savvio15k-Raid0.jpg

elu

19-05-2008, 01:15 PM

Woo.. I've been called upon!!!

Test setup:
Intel E6300
Asus P5WDG2 WS Pro
2 x 1gb Kingston DDR2-533
Hitachi T7K250

SAS controller:
Adaptec 4805SAS without BBU

HDD Brand: Seagate Savvio
Model (Optional): ST936751SS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single and 2 in Raid 0
Capacity: 36GB each
Cache: 16MB cache
SATA or SATA 2: SAS
RPM: 15k

Performance of individual drives
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/narofx/Gadgets/Savvio15k.jpg[IMG]

Performance of both in Raid 0 with stripe size of 64kb (did 2 tests)
[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/narofx/Gadgets/Savvio15k-Raid0.jpg[IMG]

HDTune not HDTach :o

naro

19-05-2008, 01:17 PM

HDTune not HDTach :o
Don't have HD Tune benchmarks yet. Maybe next weekend then will have.

Ah Jin

19-05-2008, 01:24 PM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): On the pic
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 500GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/5015/hdin2.png

stomper

19-05-2008, 01:25 PM

y your burst rate faster than SATA interface speed?

HDD Brand: Samsung F1
Model (Optional): HD753LJ
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 2x750GB = 1500GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb318/pa9797/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_WBC.png

naro

19-05-2008, 01:26 PM

y your burst rate faster than SATA interface speed?

It happens when write-back cache is enabled on Intel ICH-R controller.

stomper

19-05-2008, 01:30 PM

It happens when write-back cache is enabled on Intel ICH-R controller.

enable where?
BIOS?

this write-back cache is for wat one?

naro

19-05-2008, 01:33 PM

enable where?
BIOS?

this write-back cache is for wat one?

Enabled inside Intel Matrix or Storage Manager.

Write-back cache is caching the data before the data is actually written onto the hdd. Will give some sort of boost to read and write speeds. Anyway, the burst speed has no real-life advantage, just look nice on benchmarks.

bryanwumf

19-05-2008, 01:54 PM

HDD Brand: Western Digital
Model (Optional): WD6400AAKS-75A7B (AAM Adjusted)
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 640GB
Cache: 16mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6001/640aaksrw2.jpg

nannan82

19-05-2008, 02:29 PM

TopGun

19-05-2008, 02:29 PM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 10k3
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 74GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SCSI
RPM: 10000

Connected to DELL PER/C 4DC.

Not sure but the results looks pretty low. Not sure if limited by the PCIX interface.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9384/10k3tx4.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 15k3
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 36GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SCSI
RPM: 15000

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5987/15k3oi6.jpg

naro

19-05-2008, 02:37 PM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 10k3
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 74GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SCSI
RPM: 10000

Connected to DELL PER/C 4DC.

Not sure but the results looks pretty low. Not sure if limited by the PCIX interface.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9384/10k3tx4.jpg

Erm, what stripe size are you using???

Are you using Cheetah 10k.3???

naro

19-05-2008, 02:42 PM

HDD Brand: hitachi
Model (Optional): deskstar
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: raid 0
Capacity: 160gb x 2
Cache: 8mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/3249/qwertyzj1.png

can someone comment on my benchmark???? not sure how to diffentiate good or bad..... hdd noob here

Your access time a bit high. Did you set AAM to highest??? And what stripe size are you using??

And I think nVidia Raid has always been known to be not that good. No experience with it myself, its just hearsay.

stomper

19-05-2008, 03:02 PM

wah
ur HDD so ex

yet my raptor already faster than urs liao

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 10k3
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 74GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SCSI
RPM: 10000

Connected to DELL PER/C 4DC.

Not sure but the results looks pretty low. Not sure if limited by the PCIX interface.

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9384/10k3tx4.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): 15k2
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Enterprise
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 36GB
Cache: 32mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SCSI
RPM: 15000

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/9384/10k3tx4.jpg

TopGun

19-05-2008, 03:05 PM

Erm, what stripe size are you using???

Are you using Cheetah 10k.3???

Using 64kb strip size.

The 10K drives are ->BD07289BB8 Compaq HP Proliant 72.8 GB 10K U320 SCSI Hotswap Ultra 320 Universal Hard Drive 72G

The 15k drives are ->Cheetah 15K.3 37GB Hard Drive - ST336753LW

nannan82

19-05-2008, 03:48 PM

Your access time a bit high. Did you set AAM to highest??? And what stripe size are you using??

And I think nVidia Raid has always been known to be not that good. No experience with it myself, its just hearsay.how to set aam???? and wat u mean by stripe size???

1 Ghz

19-05-2008, 04:38 PM

For the EeePC 900:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/4gb.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/16gb.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/sdhc.jpg

stomper

19-05-2008, 04:41 PM

ACCESS TIME :s22:

$#^$%&%*(*(%&@#$!#~!$

For the EeePC 900:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/4gb.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/16gb.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e266/nereith/sdhc.jpg

pa9797

19-05-2008, 04:46 PM

haa haa eeePC SSD really fast

jtchoy

19-05-2008, 04:49 PM

Wow, SSD access time! :love:

icychill

19-05-2008, 05:35 PM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional) I think its shown below already
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 750gb
Cache: 32mb
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7,200

Just bought recently from PC Themes one.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7577/750gbrh9.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional)
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Cpnsumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 320gb
Cache: 16mb
SATA or SATA 2: 2
RPM: 7200

Bought it when i got my computer last year... all from fuwell...
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/7884/350gbnewle5.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional)
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 320gb
Cache: 16mb
SATA or SATA 2: 2
RPM: 7200

Bought this about 2-3 years ago for use in external hdd originally...now the casing up lorry already:s22:
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2954/350gboldwi0.jpg

winguy

19-05-2008, 05:40 PM

why create this thread here...

icychill

19-05-2008, 05:51 PM

why create this thread here...

=:p=:p
Actually quite true...this kind of thread used to be at harddisk forum there all the time one...

Maybe there not much activity nowadays...

pa9797

19-05-2008, 06:58 PM

Bro, be consistent use HD Tune

GegeV2

19-05-2008, 07:37 PM

TS or anyone just summarise which brand best/ pros and cons of each brand...what capacity best..single or raid etc....

Post so many results but couple of them are using same brand at same capacity with same config.

So is there a conclusion for these results??

limster

19-05-2008, 08:11 PM

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/erwin123/HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_Vol.png
WD740 8mb Raid 0

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i210/erwin123/HDTune_Benchmark_WDC_WD6400AAKS-75A.png
WD640AAKS

naro

19-05-2008, 10:13 PM

Using 64kb strip size.

The 10K drives are ->BD07289BB8 Compaq HP Proliant 72.8 GB 10K U320 SCSI Hotswap Ultra 320 Universal Hard Drive 72G

The 15k drives are ->Cheetah 15K.3 37GB Hard Drive - ST336753LW

Yup. Your benchmarks looks decent for that generation of SCSI drives.

daniel0ng

20-05-2008, 10:00 AM

HDD Brand: Hitachi
Model (Optional): HDS721616PLA
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 160GB
Cache: 8MB
SATA or SATA 2: 2
RPM: 7200

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/daniel0ng/HDTune_Benchmark_Hitachi_HDS721616P.png

yauchong

20-05-2008, 01:33 PM

dun have hd tune.. only gotch hd tach... :o
my super old hdd...

Single Seagate SATA 250GB
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/madlocke/Benching/HDTach250GBSATA.jpg

2x Seagate SATA 250GB in RAID 0
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/madlocke/Benching/HDTach250GBRaid0.jpg

2x Seagate SATA 250GB in RAID 1
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/madlocke/Benching/HDTach250GBRaid1.jpg

yauchong

20-05-2008, 01:38 PM

Oh.. forgot.. got these newer benchies too..

Seagate 320GB SATA ST3320620AS
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/madlocke/Benching/HDTuneSeagateST3320620AS.jpg

Hitachi 500GB SATA HDT725050VLA
http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/madlocke/Benching/HDTuneHitachiHDT725050VLA.jpg

Temps in my case really cmi.. this was done with no fan blowing at hdd.. got a 80mm fan (cannot fit 120mm:( ), reduce hdd temps by 3deg... ~38/37...
Cheers.... :D

CarterMarkham

27-05-2008, 05:49 AM

Hello all, I came accross this thread and had a question about my Hard Drives. I bought 2 WD Raptor X drives, 150 GB each RAID 0 setup. For some reason I expected them to perform much faster, does this look normal???
My computer specs are:
Q6600 2.4GHz
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM

HDD Brand: Western Digital
Model (Optional): Raptor X
Enterprise or Consumer Storage:
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 150GBx2 (300GB total)
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: 1.5 GB/s
RPM: 7200

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2171/2525962940_a002894c02_o.jpg

145BHP

02-06-2008, 01:03 PM

Can you all please include the Raid Controller used as well...or is it ICH9R by default?

Noticed that nobody has a configuration where two different HD brand (but same size) was used in Raid 0. Is doing this really disadvantaged or just best practice?

limster

02-06-2008, 03:24 PM

Hello all, I came accross this thread and had a question about my Hard Drives. I bought 2 WD Raptor X drives, 150 GB each RAID 0 setup. For some reason I expected them to perform much faster, does this look normal???
My computer specs are:
Q6600 2.4GHz
3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM

HDD Brand: Western Digital
Model (Optional): Raptor X
Enterprise or Consumer Storage:
RAID 0/5 or Single: RAID 0
Capacity: 150GBx2 (300GB total)
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: 1.5 GB/s
RPM: 7200

Seems a bit slow for Raptor 150? Basically the same speed as my WD740 8Mb and access time looks quite bad at 9.0ms?

Vinas.brr

10-10-2008, 09:25 PM

Hi guys, nice thread!!! Just visiting from XS (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/index.php?)!

HDD Brand: WD Raptor
Model (Optional): 4x 36GB Raptor
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: 4x RAID0
Capacity: 144GB
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: SATA
RPM: 10,000

http://www.voanet.com/vforums/uploads/2008/02/4xHDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_Volume.png

Pdissel

17-12-2008, 07:26 AM

Any idea why my burst is so slow?

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): ST3500320AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 2x500gb
Cache: 32MB
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7,200

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/LastRideIn/hdtune.jpg

Audio

17-12-2008, 11:06 AM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): ST373455SS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 4x72GB
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: SAS
RPM: 15,000

http://audio.sg/pic/SAS 72GB X4 RAID0.jpg

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): ST3300655SS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 4x300GB
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: SAS
RPM: 15,000

http://audio.sg/pic/SAS 4 X 300GB RAID0.jpg

(Audio)

TopGun

05-01-2009, 11:14 PM

HDD Brand: OCZ
Model (Optional): Core V2
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Raid 0
Capacity: 4x30GB
Cache: 16MB
SATA or SATA 2: SATA

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg316/topgun00/SSD-RAID-0HDTACH.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg316/topgun00/SSD-RAID-0-ATTO.jpg

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg316/topgun00/SSD-RAID-0-HD-Tune.jpg

cuntzbuster

06-01-2009, 09:54 AM

HDD Brand: Seagate
Model (Optional): ST3500630AS
Enterprise or Consumer Storage: Consumer
RAID 0/5 or Single: Single
Capacity: 500GB
Cache: 16mb Cache
SATA or SATA 2: SATA 2
RPM: 7200

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/cuntzbuster/HDTune_Benchmark_ST3500630AS.png