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    The HDD-SSD, ATTO Benchmark Thread

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TheDarkPreacher, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. TheDarkPreacher

    TheDarkPreacher Notebook Geek

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    Good day everyone, I have been lurking everywhere on the internet lately in search of what would be the best storage solution for my laptop. The one thing that was really hard to find and that in most cases I am still not able to find is, easily comparable benchmarks for most hard drives available now on the market. So I thought with the user base of NBR most likely we have at least a few users with any and all kinds of hard drives. So my suggestion is this, We all run the same standardized benchmark with the exact same settings and the exact same software to establish a common comparing ground for laptop storage solutions.

    The easiest and most straightforward software is ATTO imo.

    Here is a link where you can download it in less than a few seconds.

    http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1137/ATTO_Disk_Benchmark_v2.34.html

    As for the settings I suggest for the range .5kb to 1024kb on a 128MB length, Overlapped I/O, Direct I/O enabled and a queue length of 4.

    And it should look something like this. (These are the results of my two Seagate 320GB in RAID-0). Also before you run the test try to minimize all/any programs that might be running in the background and would impact your results like Anti-virus, Windows Defender, MSN, Skype, etc.

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    I am looking forward to see a lot of us participate and build ourselves a very large / comprehensive benchmark database!

    And it doesn’t matter what drive you have, if it has not been posted yet please do! Even if it is an old 4200rpm!

    Cheers! :D
     
  2. Apollo13

    Apollo13 100% 16:10 Screens

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    Sounds like a good idea, but I'm getting an HTTP 404 error on the link. Not that I can't Google it, but you might want to fix that.

    I'll test it once I'm not using my hard drive like crazy - I'd get artificially pitiful results if I ran it right now.
     
  3. TheDarkPreacher

    TheDarkPreacher Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for pointing that out Apollo!
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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  5. TheDarkPreacher

    TheDarkPreacher Notebook Geek

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    Well the point of my thread is different from the one you linked, since the SSDs weak point is the random writes in small blocks of data, and since this thread will cover both SSD and HDD I feel ATTO corners that more clearly. Because in the end your acess time really doesnt matter in real life performance, its the total numbers of read/write and bandwith that will impact your OS/Loading times.
     
  6. dseo80

    dseo80 Notebook Consultant

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    Requested 128GB Samsung SSD Atto Benchmark
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    000111 Atari Master

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    intel x25-m in lenovo t400.
     
  8. Kamin_Majere

    Kamin_Majere =][= Ordo Hereticus

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    Here is mine (set up as requested in original post)

    128GB Supertalent Ultra Drive (indilix based SSD)

    atto.png
     
  9. jackluo923

    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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  10. sgogeta4

    sgogeta4 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    How does CrystalDiskMark compare to ATTO? Although some (Jmicron) SSDs have low random writes, pretty much all the rest still destroy HDDs.
     
  11. davepermen

    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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