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

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
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.

Hmm, weird.

Never mind

 

[Markfw]

Notice the 0.9 ms seek, thats one thing I get out of a 5 disk array !

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Notice the 0.9 ms seek, thats one thing I get out of a 5 disk array !

Is that a real seek time, or due to the 128MB cache?

 

[Harriet Tubgirl]

bench

drive is a seagate 300gb pata 7200rpm w/ 8mb cache

 

[imported_Phil]

Interesting; so far, there's not a massive difference between all the drives- at least, when excluding the SCSI setups.

 

[Anubis]

80 gig SATA Seagate
80 gig SATA Seagate - same drive as above
120 gig IDE Seagate
160 gig IDE Western Digital

all in this comp

 

[EyeMWing]

Here, I HDTached my laptop HDD, a Toshiba 60gb 4200RPM.

Text

 

[biostud]

maxtor 80 gb

 

[Jimmah]

2x 80gb WD SATA RAID 0 32mb

2x 80gb WD SATA RAID 0 8mb




Raid is a fun cookie

 

[Rubycon]

HD Tach is not very accurate

BF gets 500MB/S dumps with 360MB/S sustained average. Something is not right with the titsling.

 

[V00D00]

edit

 

[imported_Phil]

Anubis, EyeMWing, Biostud, Jimmah, thanks guys, I'll add them in

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
HD Tach is not very accurate

BF gets 500MB/S dumps with 360MB/S sustained average. Something is not right with the titsling.

I know, it doesn't seem to like big RAID setups much.

What drives are you using, and how many? I'll add it in anyway, I take it you're running a 64-bit PCI setup?

 

[imported_Phil]

Guys, one request: when you run your benchmarks, could you please use Save Results, and grab the resulting file from the HDTach program files directory and store it somewhere? I hope to compile these all together at some point and offer them up as an archive for comparative purposes

Cheers! :beer:

 

[imported_Phil]

Bump for more tests

 

[Jimmah]

Bump cuz this is a good idea

 

[alkemyst]

SHOO!

 

[GoSharks]

HD tach is a worthless real-life comparison too. It is useful in order to check your configuration though.

 

[Sphexi]

RAID 1 Array - Two Samsung Spinpoint SATA 120GB drives

Seagate ST325082 250GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: GOSHARKS
HD tach is a worthless real-life comparison too. It is useful in order to check your configuration though.

Agreed, but it's a useful tool for testing interface transfer rates, and it's also very simple for people to use. Finding and installing ATTO is a bit more difficult, yet the results are more useful.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: Sphexi
RAID 1 Array - Two Samsung Spinpoint SATA 120GB drives

Seagate ST325082 250GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB

Cheers Sphexi

Could you post the model number of the Samsung drives?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
SHOO!

Shoo, troll.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: alkemyst
SHOO!

Shoo, troll.

at least I know where to post...

BTW why just why HDTACH?

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: alkemyst
SHOO!

Shoo, troll.

at least I know where to post...

Hush, I'm drumming up support before it gets moved to GH

BTW why just why HDTACH?

Because it's easy for people to run, fairly quick, and easy to find, unlike ATTO.
Do you have a suggestion for a better benchmark?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Phil

Originally posted by: alkemyst
SHOO!

Shoo, troll.

at least I know where to post...

Hush, I'm drumming up support before it gets moved to GH

BTW why just why HDTACH?

Because it's easy for people to run, fairly quick, and easy to find, unlike ATTO.
Do you have a suggestion for a better benchmark?

atto....


hdtach sucks. there is no way I am gettign 120MB/s off of a single drive

It used to be good back in the day for slower drives but not these days