The Official HDD Benchmark Thread

[sp0rky]

As I've kept telling people that the HDD interface isn't important as far as transfer bottleneck is concerned............ SATA I or II or IDE.

The limitation is in the mechanical parts of the HDD.

Most HDDs have actual transfer rates well below the ATA 133 MB/s rate.

SATA I interface is 1.5GB/s which is well in excess of the transfer rate HDDs (not to mention the much slower optical drives) are capable of.

The main advantage of the SATA interface over ATA is that the cables are much thinner and therefore more manageable and they allow more ventilation of air in the casing.

Also got advantage such as no need set jumper no need master and slave.

 

[sp0rky]

MY hd tach

my access time is slow..

 

[sjj1991]

i thought there was this thread last time lying aruond??

Ya... Disappear somewhere liao...

so this is a spoof threaD??

 

[yauchong]

so this is a spoof threaD??

yes... i think hwz cock up again... the old thread cannot find liao....

posted mine there....

 

[BHills]

posted these in pa9797 thread liao
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

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

The first 2 above pictures above are crazy .............. look at the unbelievable burst rate.

Higher than the interface max. transfer rate. How is that possible even after taking into consideration of the RAID 0 arrangement?

 

[86technie]

 

[nannan82]

mine access time alway 20ms and above.... sian....

 

[tekman]

HDD: Seagate 7200.10 320GB AAK (Flashed to AAM Firmware due to some performance issue with AAK)

Reference link:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=177791&page=4

 

[ragnarok95]

Using speedfan....

My WD 1TB greenpower is 34 degree now...POWER!

 

[gameboyz]

so this is a spoof threaD??

i search for similar threads liao dont have ok!

 

[gameboyz]

nvidia hdd?

paiseh... i really noob in hdd area

 

[bencheongcm]

nvidia hdd?

paiseh... i really noob in hdd area

its nVidia onboard RAID controller

 

[bencheongcm]

The first 2 above pictures above are crazy .............. look at the unbelievable burst rate.

Higher than the interface max. transfer rate. How is that possible even after taking into consideration of the RAID 0 arrangement?

plz dun ever use burst speed to judge how fast the HDD is.... when burst speed occur, it would las only as fast the a blink of a eye. NOT CONSTANCE

I dunno why after so many years I am still saying this same thing over and over again...

 

[gameboyz]

its nVidia onboard RAID controller

ooh ok thanks!

 

[gameboyz]

plz dun ever use burst speed to judge how fast the HDD is.... when burst speed occur, it would las only as fast the a blink of a eye. NOT CONSTANCE

I dunno why after so many years I am still saying this same thing over and over again...

the "burst" tells everything. burst as in just a short time... like a burst of speed...

 

[bencheongcm]

the "burst" tells everything. burst as in just a short time... like a burst of speed...

same as the physics term... For those who learn them in sec sch or JC sure know that acceleration goes down once you get constance speed.

So moral of story is see transfer speed not burst speed. Last time my SCSI RAID 0 also can go 300mb/s does that mean super fast ?

 

[gameboyz]

added HDD optimisations tips on #1.

 

[Sen]

Seagate 7200.11 640GB with 32MB buffer (Made in Thailand)

 

[gameboyz]

upz for more support

hope after reading this ppl can have a better idea on which hdd is good

 

[yukita]

those reserve at page 1 nvr update de

i got update de ....
check back... currently can find my laptop one... i believe this one good gauge if people want to get 7200prm disk for laptop ... quite fast imo....