Hd Benchmark Thread

**Joe_B_Me** · 06-22-2009, 11:18 AM

The purpose of this thread is simple. To see how different models/makes of HD's compare to one another.

The guidelines are simple.

1) download HD Tune
2) run tests on each of your hard drives/ hard drive setups
3) post your results with a screenshot, note HD Tune has a nice little screenshot button (picture of blue floppy). This will save you a couple keystrokes.

I'll keep all of the results in a couple of lists, so it's easy to read/compare.
If you are using raid, please mention that in your post.
For most users, a shorter access time is more important then average speed, which is why we'll start with that list.

Updated through post #31

Access Time
0.1ms - 4 x Supertalent Ultradrive GX 64GB MLC (STT_FTM64GX25H) (vsop)
0.1ms - Super Talent MasterDrive SX 128GB (ChiLd-PrOdIgY) *Raid 0*
7.3ms - 2 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB (vsop) *Raid 0*
7.9ms - Western Digital Raptor 74GB (WD740GD -00FLC0) (keyoshi)
7.9ms - 2 x SAS 10k rpm 36GB 2.5" (vsop) *Raid 0*
8.4ms - 2 x Western Digital 500gb (WD5002ABYS) (Duke3d87) *Raid 0, short stroked to 160GB*
8.5ms - Western Digital RaptorX 300GB (cyclonite) *Raid 5*
11.9ms - Western Digital 640GB (WD6400AAKS) (Joe_B_Me)
13.1ms - Seagate 250GB (ST3250310NS) (Irish2685)
13.4ms - Western Digital 500GB (WDC WD5000AAJS) (Irish2685)
13.5ms - Seagate 1.5TB (ST31500341AS) (Joe_B_Me)
13.6ms - Western Digital 250GB (WD2500KS00MJB0) (keyoshi)
14.2ms - Samsung 500GB (HD501LJ) (Joe_B_Me)
15.6ms - Seagate 80GB (ST380815AS) (oh dang)
17.4ms - Seagate Momentus 320GB 2.5" (ST9320423AS) (Joe_B_Me)
18.4ms - Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JS) (Joe_B_Me)
19.2ms - Western Digital 2TB Green (WD20EARS-00S8B1) (Joe_B_Me)
19.5ms - Hitachi 320GB (HDT725032VLA380) (Deth.Addict)

Average Transfer Rate
590.2MB/s - 4 x Super Talent MasterDrive SX 128GB (vsop) *Raid 0*
205.4MB/s - 2 x Western Digital 500gb (WD5002ABYS) (Duke3d87) *Raid 0, short stroked to 160GB*
194.1MB/s - Supertalent Ultradrive GX 64GB MLC (STT_FTM64GX25H) (ChiLd-PrOdIgY)
174.0MB/s - 2 x Western Digital Velociraptor 300GB (vsop) *Raid 0*
113.4MB/s - 3 x Western Digital RaptorX 300GB (cyclonite) *Raid 5*
100.9MB/s - Seagate 1.5TB (ST31500341AS) (Joe_B_Me)
94.7MB/s - Western Digital 640GB (WD6400AAKS) (Joe_B_Me)
93.6MB/s - 2 x SAS 10k rpm 36GB 2.5" (vsop) *Raid 0*
84.8MB/s - Western Digital 2TB Green (WD20EARS-00S8B1) (Joe_B_Me)
80.9MB/s - Seagate 250GB (ST3250310NS) (Irish2685)
69.9MB/s - Seagate Momentus 320GB 2.5" (ST9320423AS) (Joe_B_Me)
66.4MB/s - Western Digital 500GB (WDC WD5000AAJS) (Irish2685)
64.6MB/s - Samsung 500GB (HD501LJ) (Joe_B_Me)
61.9MB/s - Western Digital Raptor 74GB (WD740GD -00FLC0) (keyoshi)
60.1MB/s - Hitachi 320GB (HDT725032VLA380) (Deth.Addict)
58.7MB/s - Seagate 80GB (ST380815AS) (oh dang)
52.7MB/s - Western Digital 250GB (WD2500KS00MJB0) (keyoshi)
52.6MB/s - Western Digital 160GB (WD1600JS) (Joe_B_Me)

oh dang · 06-22-2009, 11:29 AM

Accesss Time
15.6ms - Seagate 80GB

Average Transfer Rate
60.2MB/s - Seagate 80GB

edit: 2nd go around is slightly lower then the first. Couldnt get the link to work, so here is the image instead.

**Joe_B_Me** · 06-22-2009, 11:33 AM

Do you have a screenshot to go along with that?

I wouldn't worry about WD appearing to be slow. Seeing that both my WD and yours are fairly old compared to the others tested so far.

oh dang · 06-22-2009, 11:43 AM

Opps forgot to get a screenshot. Running it again to get one.

Edit: Screen shot loaded in original post.

**Joe_B_Me** · 06-22-2009, 12:10 PM

Thanks. FYI, you have a seagate

It also looks like you have a lot of processes in the background eating up your HD's bandwidth. If you get bored enough you might as well kill all of your processes and retest it.

oh dang · 06-22-2009, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe_B_Me

Thanks. FYI, you have a seagate

It also looks like you have a lot of processes in the background eating up your HD's bandwidth. If you get bored enough you might as well kill all of your processes and retest it.

Haha wow i completely forgot my WD died and i replaced it with a Seagate lol. Yeah all my work programs are running right now. Ill run the test again once im off work later today.

Irish2685 · 06-22-2009, 04:26 PM

Access Time
13.1ms - Seagate 250GB (ST3250310NS) (Irish2685)
13.4ms - Western Digital 500GB (WDC WD5000AAJS-00YFA) (Irish2685)

Average Transfer Rate
80.9MB/s - Seagate 250GB (ST3250310NS) (Irish2685)
66.4MB/s - Western Digital 500GB (WDC WD5000AAJS-00YFA) (Irish2685)

**Joe_B_Me** · 06-25-2009, 12:50 PM

Everything is updated. Anyone else out there to run some benchies?

Deth.Addict · 06-26-2009, 06:59 PM

This is a Hitachi 320GB hard drive (HDT725032VLA380) which has been used for almost exactly 1 1/2 years. I took it out of an HP computer I bought back then. It really sucks. It's the next part I want to replace. I want to go RAID 0 but I hear that's difficult on 64 Vista.

Average Transfer Rate: 60.1 MB/sec
Access Time: 19.5 ms

**Duke3d87** · 06-26-2009, 11:05 PM

do you include raided/short stroked drives?

RcRon7 · 06-27-2009, 08:23 AM

These are old drives, over 4 years, and no raid on this system.

HD Tune: WDC WD1600JB-00REA0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 34.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 57.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 49.6 MB/sec
Access Time : 13.4 ms
Burst Rate : 77.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 70.2%

HD Tune: WDC WD2000BB-22GUC0 Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 25.4 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 56.1 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 45.8 MB/sec
Access Time : 14.5 ms
Burst Rate : 81.5 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 72.7%

For what it's worth, this system is getting a rebuild in a few weeks. I have partitions on both drives and they have not been defraged in quite a while. Smart is still good so I'm good there. But the machine is just running odd and has actually been going on its original E-Machine install for 4 years. This particular build started as an emachine, and has grown from there, the only thing left from the EM is the HD.

**Joe_B_Me** · 06-27-2009, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duke3d87

do you include raided/short stroked drives?

Indeed. Just make sure to label which is which.

@ RcRon7. IF you get any spare time, could you redo those and add some screenshots? Just for reference.

**Duke3d87** · 06-27-2009, 09:08 PM

2xWD RE3 500 GB RAID 0 - short stroked to 160 GB partition

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=489

Average: 205 MB/sec

Access Time: 8.4 MB (b/c of short stroking)

Burst is wrong b/c it's cached.

cyclonite · 07-04-2009, 08:27 AM

HD Tune: Intel Raid 5 Volume Benchmark

Transfer Rate Minimum : 69.7 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 154.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 113.4 MB/sec
Access Time : 8.5 ms
Burst Rate : 104.4 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 3.7%

OH forgot to mention these are 3 WD RaptorX drives in Raid5, I am sure that if I was to "Short Stroke" them like Duke that they would toss out a huge numbers...but it is what it is, 3 WD RaptorX drives in RAID 5. An I have to say that they looked badass when the bench mark was running and the armatures were dancing about the platters in unisin.

keyoshi · 07-07-2009, 12:34 AM

Eh, mine are 4yrs old...not too bad of numbers....

OLD WD Raptor 74gb

Transfer Rate Minimum: 36.9Mb/s
Transfer Rate Maximum: 68.6Mb/s
Transfer Rate Average: 61.9Mb/s
Access Time: 7.9Ms
Burst Rate: 107.2Mb/s
Cpu Uage: 6.2%

WD Cavair 250 GB *shudders in horror*

TRMin: 32.5mb/s
TRMax: 62mb/s
TRAvg: 52.7mb/s
AT: 13.6ms
BR: 117.9mb/s
CPU U: 6.5%

**Joe_B_Me** · 07-07-2009, 06:08 AM

Everything has been updated, keep it up guys!
I think it's interesting to see how HD's have changed over the last few years.

**Duke3d87** · 07-07-2009, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cyclonite

OH forgot to mention these are 3 WD RaptorX drives in Raid5, I am sure that if I was to "Short Stroke" them like Duke that they would toss out a huge numbers...but it is what it is, 3 WD RaptorX drives in RAID 5. An I have to say that they looked badass when the bench mark was running and the armatures were dancing about the platters in unisin.

Question. Assuming that the RAID 5 is your primary boot partition, why don't you put the drives in a 3 drive RAID 0 for say 150ish GB max (i.e short stroked) and then make a RAID 5. ICHR raid allows that you do up to i think two RAIDs on your drives.

cyclonite · 07-07-2009, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duke3d87

Question. Assuming that the RAID 5 is your primary boot partition, why don't you put the drives in a 3 drive RAID 0 for say 150ish GB max (i.e short stroked) and then make a RAID 5. ICHR raid allows that you do up to i think two RAIDs on your drives.

Meh waiting for some more $$$ flo so I can swap out to a single 300gb VelociRaptor, or maybe even an SSD. Still undetermined

Burton560 · 07-21-2009, 04:32 PM

I was surprised to see it was an option, so I did my Patriot 32GB usb flash drive,

**Joe_B_Me** · 08-19-2009, 10:13 PM

Seagate Momentus 320GB 2.5" (ST9320423AS)
Avg - 69.9 MB/s
AT - 17.4ms

My laptops HD died, so I ended up getting one of these. Not too bad I guess.