HD Tach Olympics

Arch · Post by **Arch** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 3:53 pm

Just got my new Raptor drive so I decided to do a few HD tach tests on it. Get the latest version here:

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/in ... est=HdTach

Do a Long Bench (32meg).

Here's the Raptor, all by itself on my ICH5R southbridge:

Here's my other drive, a WD400BB, 7200rpm, 2meg cache riding on the primary IDE as master:

What do you guys get?

Richard Cranium · Post by **Richard Cranium** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:16 pm

Neat tool, but my results are too low to post on this machine.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 5:24 pm

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:08 pm

500 GB RAID-0 8 MB test:

500 GB RAID-0 32 MB test:

120 GB IDE 8 MB test:

I have absolutely no explination whatsoever for the odd behavior of the 500 GB RAID, I just reformatted my system yesterday, it has done this since day one. Oddly enough it performed right where it should when it was used as single drives.

Arch · Post by **Arch** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:11 pm

Man, those are screwy looking graphs. I had RAID0 way back in the day on a FastTrak66 card and it did something similar if I recall correctly.

Unfortuntely, the current word on the street says that RAID0 is practically useless for everyday, single user uses. Obviously this excludes video / audio editing. Both StorageReview and Anandtech recently did stories on it. Go figure, RAID0 was all the rage 1-2 years ago.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:15 pm

I only use it because I am too lazy to have to deal with another drive letter.

Arch · Post by **Arch** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:17 pm

You can mount NTFS volumes under drive letters of another drive ala Linux if thats more your style. You can have a folder thats a seperate 250gig. I've never done but personally, but I know the option exists.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 6:21 pm

Nah, its just more handy to have one big 465 GB drive. I wish this SATA controller did JBOD but it can't.