Show your HD Tune bench!

what's wrong with my drive????? :|
seagate 7200.3 320Gb 7200rpm

 

You've got 30% CPU utilization. Try disabling wlan, ethernet, AV, indexing and all other background processes and post the result again.

Do not use your notebook for other tasks while performing the benchmark.

 

Here's mine:


Too bad it performs just like my old Samsung HM160HC, which was half the capacity but the platter density is the same so I guess the result is expected.. However I've never seen my Samsung have an average access time of <20ms before so I guess this could be kind of an upgrade if I really want to try and convince myself..

 

better now! is it good results for a seagate 7200.3 ?

 

Pretty good. Did you enable enhanced hard drive performance?

 

I don't known. What is that? lol :x how do I enable it?

 

It's a setting in Vista. I don't know where because I don't use Vista.

 

aw. :x I known what it is but I don't use Vista either. I'm using xp x64. I don't have vista installed on this drive to benchmark it.

 

Results (Attached Thumbnail):

Minimum - 79.2 MB Per Second.

Maximum - 139.4 MB Per Second.

Average: 117.6 MB Per Second.

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Access Time - 15.2 MS.

Burst Rate - 99.8 MB Per Second.

CPU Usage: 3.7%.

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Clean install of Windows 7 RC 64bit in RAID 0 on a pair of Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GBs.

 

I recently bought the Fujitsu 250GB MJA2250BH. It has 250GB on one platter so the performance is in the same range as the 500GB 5400rpm HDDs.



Most HDDs show a noticeable progressive drop-off in performance across the drive but this one has a more uniform curve.

John

 

Interesting, I've never seen it like that. Any idea why?

 

Here's mine. Is it allright for my drive?

 

Not really. You probably had a lot of background processes running.

Try shutting down as many as possible including AV and don't use your computer while the benchmark is running.

 

It looks like John's system has limited harddrive speeds. Its maxxing around 65-70mb/sec, when the high end should be closer to 85mb/sec

John, do you have the right SATA drivers installed on your laptop?

I had a similar hdtune on my old compaq workstation which had an ATA-66 bus limit

K-TRON

 

The SATA drivers are fine.

Herewith two HDTune plots done consecutively on the same computer (Dell E4300 with the Fujitsu drive connected via SATA).

I get the impression that the Fujitsu HDD is confusing HDTune. SiSoftware Sandra produces a more normal graph.

John

 

Here's my MJA2250BH for comparison.

 

I don't know if you noticed but it says MJA2250BH G2 and not MJA2320BH.

PS. Maybe HD Tune Pro has no problem with it.

 

Mine from my 3810t, Windows 7:

 

Here is my result. Can someone tell if my results are good or bad?

 

20% CPU indicates too many background processes.

 

Seagate 5400.6 320GB has good read speeds for a 5400rpm drive.

 

HDD

SSD

 

here mine.. Toshiba MK3252GSX

Is the performance all right?

 

Yep it's normal.

You might want to consider upgrading because your system's performance is probably bottle necked by it quite often.

Consider Hitachi 7K500 or a fast SSD.

 

Phil, can't remember the thread where I was mentioning the 'settling' that higher capacity (higher density per platter) needed, but I could be only partially right.

Seems like the error correction could also have been playing a part in the perceived slowness of bigger drives (compared to the relatively light and nimble 7K200 of a couple of years ago).

See:
http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691

 

no 7K500 in Uk and also i don't have enough for SSD... what's my next best choice?

 

WD3200BEKT is still very good. It might even beat 7K500 in some situations.

But give it two weeks and 7K500 should be available in Europe.

Wd5000bevt is pretty good too, but the WD3200BEKT will be faster for booting and launching apps.

 

My 64GB Crucial M225


My 120GB OCZ Apex:

 

How is -1% CPU usage even possible?

 

-1 is easily possible, with HD Tune.

Same as I got for my 7K500 Runs; some HD's are so powerful, they can give the excess back to the CPU!

 

lol really? wow then my toshiba MK3252GSX is super powerful! -1% CPU usage to! Toshiba FTW!

 

Just replaced a dead (all of 4 months life) 7200.4 with new 500GB travelstar...it's dead quiet, even defragged it with ear to the driver, almost no audbile noice, and from normal distance, can't even hear it....

Downloaded HDTune, seems at least as fast as Seagate, without noise and likely wil last longer than 4 months....

HD Tune Pro:
Access TIme 16.8ms
CPU use -1.0% (Sounds like tis is right from Forums, or is it a UI glitch and s/b <1% ?)
Burst 127.2 MB/sec

Read tests:
Max 108.5
Min 56.2
Avg 83.6

UPDATE: Since I have identical HP 8510p laptops, thought interesting to compare the one with Seagate, with the new Hitachi (since the pos Seagate puked in it)...

Essentially the Hitachi just beats Seagate like a drum...NOTE: I ran benchmark test with the Seagate on AC power, the Hitachi on battery......will re-run Hitachi on A/C to see if different (added below)

So here's the HDTune numbers:

Seagate 7200.4 -- on AC power
Transfer Rates:
Min 28.7
Max 98.1
Avg 73.9
Access Times:
18.8ms
Burst: 69.1MB
CPU -1%

Hitachi 7K500 -- on battery
Transfer Rates:
Min 35.4 -- 23% faster
Max 106.6 -- about 7% faster
Avg 76.3 -- a little over 3% faster
Access Times:
17.2 ms -- 10% faster
Burst 122.5 MB -- 77% greater
CPU -1%

Hitachi on AC Power:
Min 34.7
Max 108.5
Avg 83.0
Access Time 17.0
Burst 122.3 MB

Clearly, Hitachi has the Momentus whooped on all measures.

I ran WinUpdate and rebooted prior to each test, machiens are same CPU, RAM, mobo, everything....so if the HItachi lives its 3 year warranty period, it's faster, as quiet (neither make noise), likely more power efficient, and cheaper.

So thinking before the Seagate in this machine I'm on pukes, might as well 'upgrade' to the Hitachi....

BTW, why does the HDTune Pro 3.5 Benchmark numbers vary each time you run test?

 

HDtune is a nice simple benchmark but it's not the best indicator of real life performance. For something more useful look at the IOPS scores on page 2.

Could you duplicate a 5GB folder (with lots of files) on each drive and time how long it takes? That would be interesting (both on AC power).

 

gg seagte! Hitachi all the way!

 

Hitachi 7K500


WD Scorpio Black

 

Hi there..
I decided to upgrade my Clevo D900T Revision A.
I replaced the 2 Hitachi HTS541080G9SA00 with 2 new Samsung HM321HI.
They are setup in raid 2+0 with stripe 64kb.
The raid controller is: Promise FastTrak 378.

The HDTune results (with 128 kb accurate) are as follow:



I find the results rather disappointing, considering the speed of a single HM321HI.
Is this down to the connection to the MB?

grtz. chefken.

 

The bench from my old Compaq V5000 below, with a fresh install of Windows 7. Each time I have run this test, the results varied widely (as this drive is probably failing).

On one test I was down to 8 MB/sec transfer rate, and 7's WEI claimed that the drive was experiencing lapses in response time. I was aware of the issue, but had no idea the WEI could inform you of it (I was rather surprised)........