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    Need help benching my R3 disk drive

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by steve1ddd, Mar 21, 2011.

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    steve1ddd Notebook Evangelist

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    So... i have an R3 with a 1.5 tb (750x2 7200rpm) RAID 0 disk array. i want to have someone help me compare my Raid0 to another R3 with only 1 7200 rpm drive. i tried using crystaldiskinfo but i get a disk not found message. Appearently this program does not like large disks.

    What i need is someone who has one disk and can recomend a program for benching and then we can compare scores and post them for all to see. i dont think i am getting the benifit i want from the raid and if this is the case i may use this info to make the desision to break the raid and have 2 seporate disk drives. I find this more usefull for backup reasons....

    So, who can help?
     
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    Typecast NBR's Tamed Zombie

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    And also the one's who are using momentus xt hybrid drives. Please kindly share us your results. Thanks! :)
     
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    Anyone with a ssd, can post too!!! i would love to see the performance differance on all R3s based on different drives. Mostly i want to see a single 7200rpm drive though (hint, hint)
     
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    Ok using the online profiles that other people uploaded i came up with a few scores. one of them is from a guy with a R2 but its the closest i can find:
    Green: Me 750gbx2 7200rpm in RAID0
    Red: Some guy with a R3 with a single seagate 750gb 7200rpm drive
    blue: Some guy with a R2 with a "SSD G2 Series 64gb"

    As expected my RAID0 fell in between the single drive and the SSD. but holy crap look at the SSd guy's Random Seek +RW score......

    But as expected the SSD blows away my READ speed but the RAID0 wins the WRITE speed.

    http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m39/steve1ddd/Untitled.png
     
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    Now to wait for the Momentus XT results.
     
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