The HDD-SSD, ATTO Benchmark Thread

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.



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!

 

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!

 

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.

K-TRON

 

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.

 

Requested 128GB Samsung SSD Atto Benchmark
attached

 

intel x25-m in lenovo t400.

 

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

128GB Supertalent Ultra Drive (indilix based SSD)

 

LOL.. my usb flashdrive's ATTO benchmark is faster than your intel x25-m.
It was a glitch on the flash drive that made it have a throughtput of more than 900MB/s read and 100MB/s write.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=371773&highlight=atto

 

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

 

you must have some usb3.0 hw, then