Hello Anandtech people,
I just built a RAID system very cheaply but I'd like to know how good it really is.
This raid was built using 3 Maxtor 80GB 5400rpm external firewire hard disks (approx $110 each, thanks to the people in the Hot Deals Forum), using Windows 2000 software RAID in striping mode without parity (it took some effort to convince win2k but in the end I won the argument
).
This price is a heck of a deal for 240GB of hot-pluggable RAID, on the other hand I know that the performance of a SCSI 160 RAID should be better, my question is: how much better? 240GB of SCSI 160 RAID is far, far more expensive
The Matrox HD Benchmark tool rates the array at approx 16 MB/s sustained xfer speed, very similar to the internal disks in this machine (SCSI 160 spinning @10000rpm) which is encouraging but the results can change more than 1MB/s up or down on each run of the benchmark tool and I'd like to get something more reliable. I have seen reviews with neat graphs of xfer speed at different cylinders but I haven't seen a (freeware) benchmarking tool for doing something similar
Does anybody know of good, free, hard disk benchmarking tools that work under windows 2000? (ok, maybe mentioning about the performance/cylinder graphs was asking for too much but hopefully there should be something better than the matrox tool).
Have fun,
Eusebio
I just built a RAID system very cheaply but I'd like to know how good it really is.
This raid was built using 3 Maxtor 80GB 5400rpm external firewire hard disks (approx $110 each, thanks to the people in the Hot Deals Forum), using Windows 2000 software RAID in striping mode without parity (it took some effort to convince win2k but in the end I won the argument
).This price is a heck of a deal for 240GB of hot-pluggable RAID, on the other hand I know that the performance of a SCSI 160 RAID should be better, my question is: how much better? 240GB of SCSI 160 RAID is far, far more expensive
The Matrox HD Benchmark tool rates the array at approx 16 MB/s sustained xfer speed, very similar to the internal disks in this machine (SCSI 160 spinning @10000rpm) which is encouraging but the results can change more than 1MB/s up or down on each run of the benchmark tool and I'd like to get something more reliable. I have seen reviews with neat graphs of xfer speed at different cylinders but I haven't seen a (freeware) benchmarking tool for doing something similar
Does anybody know of good, free, hard disk benchmarking tools that work under windows 2000? (ok, maybe mentioning about the performance/cylinder graphs was asking for too much but hopefully there should be something better than the matrox tool).
Have fun,
Eusebio
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