Hard drive benchmark with HDTach

[Johnny Ray]

Here's my HDTach score for a Cheetah X15 on an Adaptec 2940U2W, with a PIII at 825 MHz:



What's your score?

John

P.S. I like my Cheetah

[SCompRacer]

Way cool Johhny Ray.

A third generation Cheetah...


I am pondering going ATA100 IDE with RAID rather than update all my SCSI gear. I'd need the card, the drive, $650 or so minimum.

Decisions, decisions...

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ABIT KT7 non-RAID * 900MHz Athlon T'bird * 128MB Crucial 7E PC/133 RAM * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *


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[Indiana]

My old IBM Ultra-SCSI DDRS 39130D with an Initio UW-SCSI hostadapter - FAT32:



My U-DMA RAID (RAID 0 with the ABit KT7-RAID's HighPoint controller and two IBM DTLA 307030) - NTFS:

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I love my RAID


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[spazm_1999]

My score is far from being as good as yours, but it's not that bad for a IDE Quantum 14g.



Spazm

[FrankDC]

Johnny, your burst speed seems a bit low. I get 70.6mbps on my X15. What else do you have on the bus?

[Johnny Ray]

Thanks for the comment Frank. I agree, it does seem low. There's nothing else on that channel (i.e., it's the only device on the LVD channel). Is your 70 MBS on an 2940U2W adapter? Any suggestions on what to try to bump it up?

Thanks all in advance for the tips.


John

[FrankDC]

Yes. I recently upgraded from a 2940U2W to 29160, but the 70mbps is consistent on both. This is on a PIII @ 840MHz.

What OS are you using? I noticed a substantial performance boost once I installed W2K SP1, compared to Win98 SE. (Something to do with the fact that command queueing is supported under W2K but not 9x, from what I've been told.)

[Guru]

2xIBM 30GB raid 0 Abit bx 133 raid!


Only 128MB mem in system + Seti runing in the background therfore the low score!

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[Johnny Ray]

Frank, thanks for pointing out to me the obvious. My score is from WinMe. I should have indicated that in my original post. Out of curiousity, I did manage to get a few more MB/s by playing around with my PCI latency, but hardly worth the trouble.

And Guru, I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone with a RAID rig to post! Nice score.

Come on all, let's see some more! It's nice to see what's out there and what one can expect from the various hard drive set ups.


John

[Shoyu]

Just curious, do we all know that some of these scores are inaccurate due to "Advanced Size Check" not being checked?

HDTach only tests the first 7.7GBs if it isn't checked, as shown in some of the screenshots.

[Electric Amish]

I get BSOD's every time I try to run HDTach.

amish

[Himself]

5400rpm quantum, ata 33, yee haw.

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[Ovi]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Electric Amish:
I get BSOD's every time I try to run HDTach.

amish</font>

This is a known problem with HD Tach ver 2.61. To eliminate this, you'll have to disable auto-insert notification for your CD Drive, or use a previous version of HD Tach.
Cheers
Ovi

[SCompRacer]

Just got my drives today and this is my Atto score out of the box for my RAID setup.


HD Tach 2.61 won't run with advanced test checked, and Ovi has provided the reason why, so I'll research my Archive CDR's for earlier version.

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ABIT KT7A, RAID 0 * 900MHz Athlon T'bird * 256MB Crucial 7E PC/133 RAM * Two 30GB IBM 75GXP * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *


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[xortam]

Indiana ... I have the same drive as you, IBM DDRS 39130D U2W LVD 9GB formatted with FAT32, which I just benched under Win98. I got slightly higher numbers than you using my on-board U2W SCSI (ASUS P2B-S):

Read max: 13,585 kbps
Read min: 11,201 kbps
Read ave: 12,632.9 kbps
Read burst: 46.9 Mbps
Random access: 9.9 ms
CPU: 1.7%

Advanced size results:

Read max: 13,585 kbps
Read min: 8,162 kbps
Read ave: 10822.8 kbps
Read burst: 43.6 Mbps
Random access: 12.4 ms
CPU: 1.4%

Interesting that you reported zero CPU usage. My random access and read burst were much better than yours.


SCompRacer ... were those results from a RAID 0 running two 30GB IBM 75GXPs? Which OS were you running? Which FS was installed?