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!![]()
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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. -
Thanks for pointing that out Apollo!
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we have this already, it is called the show your hdtune thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138761
hdtune is a free program, I thought ATTO was a buy only product, but I guess not.
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Requested 128GB Samsung SSD Atto Benchmark
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Kamin_Majere =][= Ordo Hereticus
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jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso
It was a glitch on the flash drive that made it have a throughtput of more than 900MB/s read and 100MB/s write.
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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.
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davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate
The HDD-SSD, ATTO Benchmark Thread
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