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Apr 4, 2006, 11:08 PM
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Post your HDTach 3 Results!
You know the name of the game, lets see what you've got.
The program is DAMN small and spywareless... so no worries.  Just got HERE~> http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach Click the Download button and download the ity bitty program and run the LONG test (32mb). Take a snapshot and post it. Use a site like www.imageshack.us for easy quick uploading and posting. And please, Post JPEGs, bmps are bloated and unnessary. I'll start.... someone please beat me! 
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Apr 5, 2006, 03:32 AM
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An old test of my striped Samsung P80's. Will separate them when I switch motherboard as the benefit is not so great after all. Then again the efficiency might be slightly lower because of the aged VIA raid chip on this Socket-A mobo.
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Apr 5, 2006, 10:57 AM
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hey... nothing wrong with nearly 100MB/s sustained read..... that's roughly twice as fast as my samsung 80gb sata 2 drive here.....
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Apr 5, 2006, 11:56 PM
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The drives.
* Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3300622AS 300GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s x 2 (total 600GB) RAID-0 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3160812A 160GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 
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May 6, 2006, 09:22 PM
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Judas, do you have ULi SATA RAID results on the RAID0 with 2 Maxtor hard drives?
i'm now running a repair installation for adding RAID drivers on one system, i set up Windows using the same image that i use with other system that uses IDE mode on SATA controller, should be able to run the HDTach in about 20 mins. so i like to see your result of a 2 drives RAID0 setup, and see if i can beat you?
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May 6, 2006, 10:03 PM
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Heres's mine 2X hitchi deskstar T7K250 250GB SATA2
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WTF?? you've somthing running in the background, or? or useing a strage stripe size? the controler funny? wierd...... any one explain that one? I always see a basic curve Raid or no raid.... Quote:
yet the curve is there in the back ground what stripe sizes you all useing? Wierd results.... Quote:
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May 6, 2006, 10:23 PM
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Here's mine...
 The drives are 2 Samsung Spinpoint SP2004C drives in R0 through an Intel ICH7R. 
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May 6, 2006, 10:50 PM
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about your comments on how the HDTach's curve... the curve of sequentail read speed on the HDTach window just came out like that on some systems, just as long as the average read's readouts still decent (not too low), i think the RAID setups are okay...
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May 7, 2006, 04:14 AM
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Seagate ST3808110AS RAID0 (2 hard drives),
2 RAID volumes were created during the firmware RAID set up. real-time AV scan is on, all Windows and other services (except Remote Registry, System Restore, Automatic Updates, Windows Time and UPnP Device Host) are using default settings.   Two Windows OSes (XP Pro and XP x64 Pro) were installed by using a partition images restoring in mode DOS (Paragon Drive Backup) followed by Windows repair installation to add RAID drivers and then after that the Windows's have been reupdated. and then create a new backup image (Paragon Drive Backup Server edition). some of these partition image will go to my friend who asks me to create them, he also wants me to test the server edition of Paragon Drive Backup program. anyway, i'll probably check with Seagate to see if they have any suggestion or can help improve the RAID performance, they might be able to help improving those curved shapes abit.
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May 8, 2006, 07:00 AM
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3xSeagate ST3808110AS firmware 3.AAE (P/N xxxx-303) in RAID0, 223.6 GB.
Vol_0 size = 32 GB (2 primary partitions for 2 Windows XP's), Vol_1 size = 191.6 GB. >  HD Tach... for Vol_0... >  HD Tach... for Vol_1... >  and here is HD Tach... for 1x Seagate ST3808110AS 80 GB (firmware 2AAA P/N xxxx-301) under SATA controller in IDE mode. > 
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May 8, 2006, 02:31 PM
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i think i've got 2 of these maxtors in raid 0 and 3 in raid 0 as well ....somewhere.... benchmarks i mean..
but HDTach i've noticed so far favors lower blocks sizes However i'm a bit confused on how your setting up the volumes and getting HDTach to see it like that. If they are indeed raid..... should it combine it into a single large hardrive.... When i load up HDTach, it sees only one available drive. Course i miss my HighPoint Tech controller, with IDE ATA100 drives, i was getting nearly 1/2 of what i'm getting now... and they were 2mb cache 7200rpm.. generic maxtor (only 2 of them)....
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May 8, 2006, 03:01 PM
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that's the "Intel Matrix RAID", under ICH7R, RAID0 and RAID1 or RAID5 (Parity) can be combined. suppose to be RAID10 also...
about the RAID subsystem, in some cases... it has to do with hard drives's firmware, not just the controller. if you want to have the best SATA RAID preformance you might want to consult and work with the hard drives tach supports.
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May 8, 2006, 03:46 PM
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Judas, have a look here... http://forums.storagereview.net/inde...35&hl=firmware
the link is not working atm, but check it out later. you would see that hard drive's firmware help correcting a 4x 500GB RAID5 performance problem. anyway, i think i beat your results a little already. you might think i did cheat you a little, since the RAID0 volume size was only 32 GB? Quote:
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May 8, 2006, 06:26 PM
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so what strip size are u guys with raid-0 using, im using 16k and obtaining 105mb average read, seagate 7200.8 x2 raid-0 (too lazy to post screen hehe)
I do believe strip size makes a difference in hdtach
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