harddrive benchmarking

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I have a 4drive array setup on the onboard promise controller, and HDtach is giving me really low results. Two drives scrored around 90mb/s and 4 drives scrore any where from 20 to 50mb/s depending on the stripe size.

What is another good benchmarking utility to confirm these numbers?
If those are the best numbers the onboard controller can muster im going to buy a "real" controller, but id like to run another test to be sure.

Thanks
Jason

 

[WobbleWobble]

The 2 drive 90MB/s, if average read speed sounds right for a 7200RPM drive. The 4 drive score is horrible though.

Try ATTO, AIDA32 and Sandra even.

What version HD Tach are you using? What motherboard as well?

 

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If you use Sandra, recommend 2004 version. Noticed anomalies with the 2002 version (with all upgrades) tests, but the 2004 version checks close to other measurements.

 

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Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
The 2 drive 90MB/s, if average read speed sounds right for a 7200RPM drive. The 4 drive score is horrible though.

Try ATTO, AIDA32 and Sandra even.

What version HD Tach are you using? What motherboard as well?

Im at work, but i believe its HDtach270. Those are avg numbers, I agree that the 2drive numbers are decent, but there is either a bug in the raid controller or HDtach with the 4drives, and i need to find out which.

 

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the mobo is an SK8V

 

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Will the standard Sandra for download bench harddrives?

Which is better out of ATTO and AIDA32?

thanks
jason

 

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intel iometer

 

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HDtach2.7 deffinitely has some bugs, its numbers are not consistant with a few other utilities including sandra.