SATA Hard Drive

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:09 am

Try sci soft sandra to benchmark your system. I have had good luck with this utility. http://pcworld.com/downloads/file_descr ... 005,00.asp

A sata 150 drive will not be faster than a pata drive in most testing. Even the sata 3 drives aren't faster in the real world. No drive is saturating the bandwidth. I have a sata 3 Seagate drive and it is just marginally faster than my pata 133 drive. Drive read and write speeds aren't up to the connection speed.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:57 am

I will have to test it out this new test when I get home. Ill try both tests.

Again, thanks for the help =D

-The14thGOD-

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:24 pm

Starting Create File Bench...
Created file: C:\Documents and Settings\The14thGOD\Desktop\DiskBench1.bin
Size: 201326592 bytes
Time: 26281 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.306 MB/s

Create File Bench ended

Created file: C:\Documents and Settings\The14thGOD\Desktop\DiskBench1.bin
Size: 201326592 bytes
Time: 24719 ms
Transfer Rate: 7.767 MB/s

Create File Bench ended

Starting Create File Bench...

Created file: F:\DiskBench1.bin
Size: 201326592 bytes
Time: 12922 ms
Transfer Rate: 14.858 MB/s

Create File Bench ended

Starting Create File Bench...

Created file: F:\DiskBench1.bin
Size: 201326592 bytes
Time: 12984 ms
Transfer Rate: 14.787 MB/s

Create File Bench ended

First ones = C, ide, 2nd ones = F:, sata

which one? for the link there, i dont see any hard drive testers.

-The14thGOD-

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:32 pm

Congrats, your SATA drive is nearly twice as fast as the IDE drive. Your problem exists entirely in your head.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:20 pm

Here are my drives benchmarked with sandra. Both drives are 250gb and 7200rpm. You only see a lot of difference in the buffered speeds. Both drives have 8meg buffers. In nnormal read and write the sata is just marginally faster.

SiSoftware Sandra

Seagate sata3

Benchmark Results
Drive Index : 52 MB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : HAL9000 on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 7:53:25 PM
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Operating System Disk Cache Used : No
Use Overlapped I/O : Yes
IO Queue Depth : 4 request(s)
Test File Size : 1GB
File Fragments : 1
Block Size : 1MB
File Server Optimised : No

Benchmark Breakdown
Buffered Read : 194 MB/s
Sequential Read : 59 MB/s
Random Read : 42 MB/s
Buffered Write : 187 MB/s
Sequential Write : 58 MB/s
Random Write : 43 MB/s
Average Access Time : 7 ms (estimated)

Drive
Drive Type : Hard Disk
Total Size : 78GB
Free Space : 72GB, 92%
SiSoftware Sandra

Seagate pata 133

Benchmark Results
Drive Index : 46 MB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : HAL9000 on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 8:06:03 PM
SMP Test : No
Total Test Threads : 1
SMT Test : No
Dynamic MP/MT Load Balance : No
Processor Affinity : No
Operating System Disk Cache Used : No
Use Overlapped I/O : Yes
IO Queue Depth : 4 request(s)
Test File Size : 1GB
File Fragments : 1
Block Size : 1MB
File Server Optimised : No

Benchmark Breakdown
Buffered Read : 54 MB/s
Sequential Read : 52 MB/s
Random Read : 38 MB/s
Buffered Write : 89 MB/s
Sequential Write : 52 MB/s
Random Write : 36 MB/s
Average Access Time : 7 ms (estimated)

Drive
Drive Type : Hard Disk
Total Size : 49GB
Free Space : 49GB, 100%

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 8:25 pm

Also those speeds arn't really telling you how fast you'll get under normal practical circumstances. You'd be hard pressed to break 16 or more MB/s in the real world. This is the problem with certian benchmarks, they test absolute ideal circumstances when you should be testing practical situations.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:07 am

Would you recommend getting a new hard drive deticated to a project, or just kepe my current set up. I only have about 10gb of space on my C drive, and I can clear up to prolly 80gb on my F.

Thanks again for all of your imput

-The14thGOD-

Joe88 · Post by **Joe88** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:35 am

You should keep your current set up.
There no need to get another drive.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:01 pm

Sounds like you have plenty of space for now. Drives are getting pretty cheep so adding more isn't such a big deal. I recomend getting an external drive to archive files you don't need to acsess vey often. I have done this for my amv downloads.

The14thGOD · Post by **The14thGOD** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:46 pm

alrighty, ill see how this video project goes, hopefully the video turns out smoother than last time, if it doenst maybe ill consider another drive to test it or something idk

thanks again for all your help!

-The14thGOD-