What do you guys think about an Official HDTach benchmark thread?

[imported_Phil]

Thoughts?

Might be a good way of seeing the real-world performance of all the different makes of hard disks in one place, and a way of directing people to the right hard disk for their needs.

Here's the drives in my main machine:

Fujitsu 36GB SCSI 10,000rpm 8MB cache U160* SCA drive.
MAP3367NC.

*U320 drive running on a U160 controller.

Maxtor 120GB PATA 7,200rpm 2MB cache DM+9 DMA133.
6Y120L0

Seagate 200GB PATA 7,200rpm 8MB cache 7200.7 DMA100.
ST3200822A.

Any more?



[Edit] SynthDude2001:

Seagate 250GB SATA 7,200rpm 8MB cache 7200.7 S150.
ST3250823AS.



dowxp:

Fujitsu 36GB SCSI 15,000rpm 8MB cache U160,
MAS3367NC.



Harriet T*bgirl:

Maxtor 300GB PATA 7,200rpm 8MB cache 7200.8 DMA100.
ST3300831A.



Anubis:

Seagate 80GB SATA 7,200rpm 8MB cache 7200.7 S150.
ST380817AS.

Seagate 160GB PATA 7,200rpm 2MB cache 7200.7 DMA100.
ST3160021A.

Western Digital 120GB PATA 7,200rpm 2MB cache BB DMA100.
WD1200BB-53CAA0.



EyeMWing:

Toshiba 60GB PATA 4,200rpm 8MB cache MK60 DMA100.
MK6025GAS.



Biostud:

Maxtor 80GB PATA 7,200rpm 2MB cache DM+9 DMA133.
6Y080P0.



Jimmah:

Western Digital 80GB SATA 7,200rpm 8MB cache S150 RAID-0.
Unknown model(s).



C6FT7:

LSI MegaRAID volume, unknown drives.
Unknown model(s).

 

[Harriet Tubgirl]

i'll bench tonite, and check in the morning. g'nite :moon:

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Harriet T*bgirl
i'll bench tonite, and check in the morning. g'nite :moon:

Good stuff, thanks :beer:

 

[Harriet Tubgirl]

link to d/l hdtach...

http://majorgeeks.com/HDTach_d672.html

 

[imported_Phil]

moved upwards

 

[SynthDude2001]

:thumbsup:

I'll see if I can remember to run it on my main hard drive one of these days (Seagate 250GB 7200.8 SATA). But it's almost 6am right now.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
:thumbsup:

I'll see if I can remember to run it on my main hard drive one of these days (Seagate 250GB 7200.8 SATA). But it's almost 6am right now.

I'd be interested to see how that stacks up against my 200Gb 7200.7 PATA

(Oh, and my SCSI drive, but I've just got that and am extremely impressed )

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
:thumbsup:

I'll see if I can remember to run it on my main hard drive one of these days (Seagate 250GB 7200.8 SATA). But it's almost 6am right now.

I'd be interested to see how that stacks up against my 200Gb 7200.7 PATA

(Oh, and my SCSI drive, but I've just got that and am extremely impressed )

Fine, I'll run it just for you

(I actually did just run it once and thought something was horribly wrong since the results were between 2 and 5MB/sec....turns out my nightly virus scan was running in the background )

 

[SynthDude2001]

Here we go: Text

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
:thumbsup:

I'll see if I can remember to run it on my main hard drive one of these days (Seagate 250GB 7200.8 SATA). But it's almost 6am right now.

I'd be interested to see how that stacks up against my 200Gb 7200.7 PATA

(Oh, and my SCSI drive, but I've just got that and am extremely impressed )

Fine, I'll run it just for you

(I actually did just run it once and thought something was horribly wrong since the results were between 2 and 5MB/sec....turns out my nightly virus scan was running in the background )

:laugh::heart:

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Here we go: Text

:beer:

I'll add it to my other post.

 

[SynthDude2001]

 

[imported_Phil]

I just had an idea- if the results were saved, sent to me, zipped up and hosted somewhere, then anyone wanting to know the results for a particular drive could download the file, import them into HDTach and then compare the drive to their current drive(s).

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Phil
I just had an idea- if the results were saved, sent to me, zipped up and hosted somewhere, then anyone wanting to know the results for a particular drive could download the file, import them into HDTach and then compare the drive to their current drive(s).

Sounds like a good idea.

I'm not gonna run the test again right now since I've resumed my virus scan, maybe later

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Phil
I just had an idea- if the results were saved, sent to me, zipped up and hosted somewhere, then anyone wanting to know the results for a particular drive could download the file, import them into HDTach and then compare the drive to their current drive(s).

Sounds like a good idea.

I'm not gonna run the test again right now since I've resumed my virus scan, maybe later

No worries. I'll bump this every now and then, maybe move it to GH

 

[imported_Phil]

bump for results?

 

[EyeMWing]

I have a small armada of drives here I could test. But IIRC, HDTach performs poorly on full drives. And they're all full.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I have a small armada of drives here I could test. But IIRC, HDTach performs poorly on full drives. And they're all full.

There doesn't seem to be any performance difference here; the Seagate was tested when it was barely 10% full, and this morning it had 15Gb free and tested about the same.

 

[sandorski]

wrong forum

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: sandorski
wrong forum

I'm drumming up support

 

[Markfw]

This test sucks. I can get 200k read/write out of ATTO, but I get 54k here ? At least the CPU util was 2% and the average seek was 0.9 and the read line was totally flat.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I have a small armada of drives here I could test. But IIRC, HDTach performs poorly on full drives. And they're all full.

There doesn't seem to be any performance difference here; the Seagate was tested when it was barely 10% full, and this morning it had 15Gb free and tested about the same.

15gb is a BOATLOAD of free space. I'm talking 15***k***b

 

[dowxp]

fuji mas3367NC 15k

http://downloadanime.org/dow/hdtach.GIF

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: dowxp
fuji mas3367NC 15k

http://downloadanime.org/dow/hdtach.GIF

Thanks, added

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I have a small armada of drives here I could test. But IIRC, HDTach performs poorly on full drives. And they're all full.

There doesn't seem to be any performance difference here; the Seagate was tested when it was barely 10% full, and this morning it had 15Gb free and tested about the same.

15gb is a BOATLOAD of free space. I'm talking 15***k***b

I'm sure you can delete some of the donkey porn to make room for a quick bench or two