[floppybootstomp]

Post yours here

You can get the software from Here

The software measures how fast your hard disk(s) read and write.

My benchmark was taken on the system in my sig which has as it's main disk a pair of WD 74Gb Raptors in a RAID 0. They have had Win Vista on them continuously for 19 months now and I mention that as read/write speeds will be faster if taken shortly after a fresh install.

My figures don't mean much to me atm as I have nothing to compare them to, so get posting yours up here.

The software doesn't install but works as a live app.

I don't know if it works within Linux unfortunately.

Here's mine for starters then:

[Abarbarian]

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Seagata Baracuda 500GB Sata 2
Geil Black Dragon PC 6400 800 MHz

Here is me result for the "C" drive which is half full.




These are the results for a partition on an external E-Sata drive running at 150Mbs (Sata 1 speed). The drive is a Seagate Baracuda SATA 2 320GB.




Shame it don't run on Linux. Would have been good to see the results of a shoot out.

[wizkid]

Taken from my Crunching pc. Its probably slow because it the hdd only has a 8mb cache in it lol.

AMD 4200+ 2.20GHZ

MSI K9N NEO V3 MOBO

GEIL ULTRA 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 DDR2 RAM

SEAGATE 160GB SATA HDD ST3160827AS

[Madxgraphics]

Originally Posted by Abarbarian

Shame it don't run on Linux. Would have been good to see the results of a shoot out.

Bonnie++ should do the trick

[floppybootstomp]

Recently changed my systems' primary disk from a pair of 10,000rpm raptors to a pair of 7200rpm sataII Hitachi disks and here as promised is the comparison.

Note that the Raptor benchmark was taken with a very full Operating System loaded whereas the SataII benchmark was taken with a fresh install with relatively little software installed:

The 2 x 74Gb Raptors with a very full version of Vista SP1:



The 2 x Hitachi 250Gb Sata II disks with fresh install of Vista with SP2:



I think this shows that the Raptors, or improved Velicoraptors are worth all that cash.

Having said that, thus far with this install I'm noticing little difference in speed of operation.

But that could be due to the uncluttered install and the addition of Vista Service Pack 2.

I'll do another Atto benchmark a couple of weeks down the line.