[Veto1024]

Ok SiSoft SANDRA is showing that im getting a 10MB/sec transfer. Its a new hard drive in a mirror but the 2nd drive is old and im not sure which drive is being run off of. Also, all the loading times seem very fast so im thinking theres a problem with the program. Can someone recommend a godo program to benchmark my hardh drives?

 

[steveo42024]

Pc mark 04 does a bunch of test including a good hd test

 

[Veto1024]

PC mark wants my money before it'll tell me HDD scores

 

[shermstix]

HDTach. That is the best benchmarking Utility for HDD. You should get 120Mb/s or better with a clean Raptor. But in a Mirror config, you will see a marked drop in speeds since you are asking the system to write the data twice.

 

[Veto1024]

Woo bursted at liek 105MB/s and top read at 70MB/sec

 

[shermstix]

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Originally Posted by Veto1024 Woo bursted at liek 105MB/s and top read at 70MB/sec

Nice..... I bet your burst is being slowed by the mirror config. Those are still nice busts. My Raptor Pulls 120mb/s, my Maxtor DiamondMAX 9 pulls like 90MB/s... Glad it works. I wonder what was up with Sandra....

 

[boosting]

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Originally Posted by shermstix Nice..... I bet your burst is being slowed by the mirror config. Those are still nice busts. My Raptor Pulls 120mb/s, my Maxtor DiamondMAX 9 pulls like 90MB/s... Glad it works. I wonder what was up with Sandra....

wow, i pulled 122.4 mbps with my DiamondMAX 9. Wonder why im getting better numbers then your raptor?

 

[briank]

Burst data is useless. That's just the data coming out of the cache on the drive. Burst is more a test of the interface (SATA/SCSI) and not the drive. Max sustained is what the max read or write speed is from the out diameter of the media. Expect ~70MB/s from a raptor.