disk speed test

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dug777

Lifer
Oct 13, 2004
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about 2000 for my 20gb seagate (5400 rpm, 2mb cache i assume),
but it totally screws up when i try to run it on my 160gb drive (OS drive), really low times for random read, and wont even do the access times bit :p
 

SithSolo1

Diamond Member
Mar 19, 2001
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Heh, I read the Male Escort thread title and when I saw this below it I thought it said "dick speed test" :(
 

Deeko

Lifer
Jun 16, 2000
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6846 160GB IDE

I'm sure back when I ran dual 80GB's in RAID 0 it was faster.
 

glugglug

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Jun 9, 2002
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The test is severely broken. Not only do the results lack repeatability, but my single 160GB drive is rating consistently about double the speed of my 4x200GB RAID10 array, especially in linear read. (This tool says my RAID linear reads are 30MB/s, other test tools tell me the linear read is throttled to 152MB/s by the mobo RAID controller). My favorite result from this test is from running it on a CD -- 0.6856MB/s linear reads, and 0.8124MB/s on random reads; - think about it, how can it be faster on random access than linear?
 

JoeKing

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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odd results...
all IDE
120 gig 7200rpm seagate ~ 5900
160 gig 7200rpm seagate ~ 5900
200 gig 7200rpm seagate ~ 7800 :Q

Damnit I knew I should have put my OS partition on that 200 gig drive. I have found it is much louder than the other two.
 

AgaBoogaBoo

Lifer
Feb 16, 2003
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Originally posted by: JoeKing
ram drive?

HP SmartArray 64xx series Enterprise 256MB WRAM 6 Fujitsu MAU RAID10 IA64Ent for ItaniumMPS

Hell, this is still a mid range server!
 

BillyBatson

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May 13, 2001
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my C: is a single 74gb Raptor, last defrag was 2 weeks ago, and everythign running right now, score is 12329
 

imported_Phil

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Feb 10, 2001
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Maxtor DiamondMax +9 120Gb 7200rpm 2Mb cache = 5298.
Seagate 7200.7 200Gb 7200rpm 8Mb cache (100Gb per platter model, no NCQ) = 7373.

[Edit] I have an IBM Ultrastar 36Gb 10krpm SCSI drive knocking around, but I need to find an U160 controller card for it first.
 

Sphexi

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Feb 22, 2005
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The crappy Dell POS (point of sale you sickos) stations we have at work pulled a massive 2827.