HD Tach Scores - Page 3

**TheMatt** · 04-21-2007, 01:11 PM

Here it is for my system (at left in the "My System" menu).

32 MB read:
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Sequencial read = 31 MB/s
Burst Speed = 97.1 MB/s
Random Access = 19.4 ms
CPU Utilization = 4%
Average Read = 22.1 MB/s

**TheMatt** · 07-25-2007, 08:44 PM

Now this is with my new Seagate 7200 RPM drive as opposed to my old Hitachi 4200 RPM drive.

32 MB read:
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Sequential read = 45 MB/s
Burst Speed = 91.0 MB/s
Random Access = 14.7 ms
CPU Utilization = 4%
Average Read = 36.7 MB/s

Lifeismusic · 08-08-2007, 10:19 AM

Sequential Read Peak = 110MB/s
Burst Speed = 350MB/s
Average Read = 56.9 MB/s
CPU Utilization = 2%
Random Access = 13.6ms

I'm a little confused as to why I am able to consistantly achieve a Burst Speed of over 300MB/s. I'm using 4x 250GB WD 7200rpm drives in RAID 0+1, using an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe for the controller. But because these are SATA, shouldn't they only be able to get to 300, not 300+?

**TheMatt** · 08-08-2007, 01:22 PM

Better for my new build. See left. <<<

Sequential Read Peak = 66 MB/s
Burst Speed = 196 MB/s
Average Read = 54.7 MB/s
CPU Utilization = 6%
Random Access = 13.4ms

Because the drives are in a striping array, you do 300 MB/s x 2 for the max burst speed.

Lifeismusic · 08-08-2007, 01:53 PM

Oh I see, thanks.

jaggerwild · 09-09-2007, 10:34 PM

Hey figured I'd chime in
none raid Western digital cavier 7,200 sata2
Sequential Read Peak= 65MB/s
Burst Speed = 200MB/s
Average Read =55MB/s
CPU Utilization = 2%
Random Access =13.2ms

ian_heath · 11-16-2007, 07:52 AM

Ooooh yeh.
Seems 4 SATA discs in RAID0 is a little over the top but sure does yield decent stats.
Just got a 329-330 MB/s burst using my 4 x WD 160g SATA 7200's
Powered using the stock JMicron RAID controller supplied on the ASUS P5B D
(see attachment)
Ian

**TheMatt** · 11-16-2007, 02:01 PM

You peaked at about 160MB/s which is actually pretty good for four disks. Usually even synthetic benchmarks don't get that high with RAID 0.

geek73 · 11-16-2007, 06:32 PM

Here is my lonly numbers..with only 2 of my hard drives connected. But remeber I am also running 2 instances of Folding at home

Here is my just one hard drive yuck looks almost dead

Here is a much better test.. Though for your hard drives

http://webpages.charter.net/bvanlieshout/bench32.rar

**TheMatt** · 11-16-2007, 10:15 PM

Those spikes in the first screenshot can't be right - how can you get 4.0GB/s when your interface limits 3.0GB/s?

Is that second one a RAID 0 array?

geek73 · 11-16-2007, 11:19 PM

No mistake lol.. There raptors in Raid 0... I will do it again..

The reason for the spikes is I just downloaded a 4.7 gig iso file for Linux and it is on my raid stripe.. I think one of my raptors is dying though..

You should see what I get when I connect 6 hard drives in Raid )

I will do the other test as well as it is more reliable,, You can download it off of me
http://webpages.charter.net/bvanlieshout/bench32.rar

**TheMatt** · 11-17-2007, 10:00 PM

Ahh you have four of them so 3.0GB/s x 4. I shouldn't be posting after midnight.

12-09-2007, 02:48 PM

Didn't want to type, my stats are in My System drop down ^^

Motorhead8478 · 12-18-2007, 08:00 PM

Heres a screen capture of my latest 4x SATA II RAID zero, command queuing off.

If unreadable
Burst 334
AverageRead 134

Not bad for 4 cheap Western Digital 80GB SATA 3.0 drives

**Aus_Karlos** · 12-20-2007, 01:35 AM

OK. Running the 8mb test this is what i got.

Maxtor 6 300gb (System & Backup)
Sequential Read Peak= 115mb/s
Burst Speed = 189.3mb/s
Average Read = 61.6mb/s
CPU Utilization = 1%
Random Access = 16.1ms

Western Digital 250gb
Sequential Read Peak= 65mb/s
Burst Speed = 171.1mb/s
Average Read = 52.9mb/s
CPU Utilization = 2%
Random Access = 13.2ms

Western Digital 320gb
Sequential Read Peak= 98mb/s
Burst Speed = 172.4mb/s
Average Read = 64.7mb/s
CPU Utilization = 4%
Random Access = 13.1ms

Western Digital 500gb
Sequential Read Peak= 90mb/s
Burst Speed = 212.1mb/s
Average Read = 70.1mb/s
CPU Utilization = 2%
Random Access = 13.2ms

ian_heath · 12-20-2007, 04:48 AM

hey Motorhead8478

yeh - seems we are getting almost identical results using same/similar HDD but entirely different system config.

notable

Ian

burnin_18 · 04-01-2008, 01:01 PM

i downloaded and ran the quick 8mb HD Tach but it said that my raptor x 150gb average speed was 4MB/s and was using 25% of my core2quad
q6600 cpu?! must be a software error i know but the raptor has been giving me issues, although the wd lifeguard diognistic or whatever its called reported no errors at all. system refuses to boot every now and again and in dos says "HDD error" or "operating system not found"

im running the 32mb test now and will post results when finished.

no i won't. just had a powercut and it stoped the test. havn't got time to run again. either way the computers goin out the window.

**smz** · 04-02-2008, 11:40 PM

That is way off. I upgraded to a Q6600 myself and I just re-ran the test

and I got my highest score yet bursting at 187mb/sec and sustained 140mb/sec

I'm running a raid 0 with a pair of Maxtor 7200RPM SATA drives.

This makes very little since, but if this is a new config, maybe there is a conflict with the mb & drive detection.

Also the newest HD driver controller is good update. Keep in mind the raid driver is separate then a regular Sata Driver or IDE driver. All depends on your config.

Hope that sheds some inside.

Quote:

Originally Posted by burnin_18

i downloaded and ran the quick 8mb HD Tach but it said that my raptor x 150gb average speed was 4MB/s and was using 25% of my core2quad
q6600 cpu?! must be a software error i know but the raptor has been giving me issues, although the wd lifeguard diognistic or whatever its called reported no errors at all. system refuses to boot every now and again and in dos says "HDD error" or "operating system not found"

im running the 32mb test now and will post results when finished.

no i won't. just had a powercut and it stoped the test. havn't got time to run again. either way the computers goin out the window.

HD_Monkey · 04-30-2008, 05:08 PM

Hello, just set up my first raid 0 and here are the results. This was using two seagate 7200rpm barracudas sata2 with a 4kb stripe. Also, OS is x64. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Sequential read = 178 MB/s
Burst Speed = 350.5 MB/s
Random Access = 15.4 MB/s
CPU Utilization = 7%
Average Read = 155.5 MB/s

What do you think?

**smz** · 04-30-2008, 11:28 PM

That is sweet. I pumped up my system to the max though I took out my raid for now in favor of the latest model Maxtor/Seagate Sata II (turns of out the raid 0 was SATA I) but it looks on par for what I get with my one single drive. The burst is real sweet on yours too!

I know for sustained read I'm getting around 80MB/s
though for some reason now at x64, HD tach keeps crashing even if i set it in compatibility mode :(

Quote:

Originally Posted by HD_Monkey

Hello, just set up my first raid 0 and here are the results. This was using two seagate 7200rpm barracudas sata2 with a 4kb stripe. Also, OS is x64. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Sequential read = 178 MB/s
Burst Speed = 350.5 MB/s
Random Access = 15.4 MB/s
CPU Utilization = 7%
Average Read = 155.5 MB/s

What do you think?

04-21-2007, 01:11 PM	#41 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores Here it is for my system (at left in the "My System" menu). 32 MB read: ------------------------- Sequencial read = 31 MB/s Burst Speed = 97.1 MB/s Random Access = 19.4 ms CPU Utilization = 4% Average Read = 22.1 MB/s __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

07-25-2007, 08:44 PM	#42 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores Now this is with my new Seagate 7200 RPM drive as opposed to my old Hitachi 4200 RPM drive. 32 MB read: ------------------------- Sequential read = 45 MB/s Burst Speed = 91.0 MB/s Random Access = 14.7 ms CPU Utilization = 4% Average Read = 36.7 MB/s __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

08-08-2007, 10:19 AM	#43 (permalink)
Lifeismusic Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 OS: XP Home My System	Re: HD Tach Scores Sequential Read Peak = 110MB/s Burst Speed = 350MB/s Average Read = 56.9 MB/s CPU Utilization = 2% Random Access = 13.6ms I'm a little confused as to why I am able to consistantly achieve a Burst Speed of over 300MB/s. I'm using 4x 250GB WD 7200rpm drives in RAID 0+1, using an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe for the controller. But because these are SATA, shouldn't they only be able to get to 300, not 300+?

08-08-2007, 01:22 PM	#44 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores Better for my new build. See left. <<< Sequential Read Peak = 66 MB/s Burst Speed = 196 MB/s Average Read = 54.7 MB/s CPU Utilization = 6% Random Access = 13.4ms Because the drives are in a striping array, you do 300 MB/s x 2 for the max burst speed. __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

08-08-2007, 01:53 PM	#45 (permalink)
Lifeismusic Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 159 OS: XP Home My System	Re: HD Tach Scores Oh I see, thanks.

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11-16-2007, 02:01 PM	#48 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores You peaked at about 160MB/s which is actually pretty good for four disks. Usually even synthetic benchmarks don't get that high with RAID 0. __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

11-16-2007, 10:15 PM	#50 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores Those spikes in the first screenshot can't be right - how can you get 4.0GB/s when your interface limits 3.0GB/s? Is that second one a RAID 0 array? __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

11-17-2007, 10:00 PM	#52 (permalink)
TheMatt TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2006 Location: Boston Posts: 13,701 OS: Win 3.1, 98, NT 4.0, XP Debian 4.0, Kubuntu 6.06 My System Blog Entries: 3	Re: HD Tach Scores Ahh you have four of them so 3.0GB/s x 4. I shouldn't be posting after midnight. __________________ - Matt M - KB1OSC - Folding@Home 85015 [url="http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/"] If TSF has helped you, please consider donating. If I have stopped responding to a thread, feel free to send me a PM with a link to the thread. It is advisable to subscribe to threads so you will receive updates when replies are posted. You can subscribe to threads from the "Thread Tools" Menu. »Memtest86 »Prime95 »UBCD »SpeedFan »NHC Personal »Everest »Sandra »PC Wizard »RivaTuner »ATi Tool Click here for Useful Articles and Guides

12-09-2007, 02:48 PM	#53 (permalink)
techpro5238 Guest Posts: n/a OS:	Re: HD Tach Scores Didn't want to type, my stats are in My System drop down ^^ Last edited by techpro5238; 01-18-2008 at 09:15 PM.

12-20-2007, 01:35 AM	#55 (permalink)
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04-01-2008, 01:01 PM	#57 (permalink)
burnin_18 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 27 OS: xp pro sp2	Re: HD Tach Scores i downloaded and ran the quick 8mb HD Tach but it said that my raptor x 150gb average speed was 4MB/s and was using 25% of my core2quad q6600 cpu?! must be a software error i know but the raptor has been giving me issues, although the wd lifeguard diognistic or whatever its called reported no errors at all. system refuses to boot every now and again and in dos says "HDD error" or "operating system not found" im running the 32mb test now and will post results when finished. no i won't. just had a powercut and it stoped the test. havn't got time to run again. either way the computers goin out the window. Last edited by burnin_18; 04-01-2008 at 01:16 PM.