SATA real world performance.....

[Duvie]

Anyone running these 10000rpm raptors??? I wonder how much I could see in performance in my audio/video work with it versus my ata133 7200rpm stuff???

[ThugsRook]

linky

http://www.abxzone.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=9

[Duvie]

What about a review where they look at a single drive SATA and not in a raid configuration. I mean I would love to do it but I thikn cash flow could limit me to one initially...

[ThugsRook]

IMHO: go SATA raid or dont bother

im looking todo the same thing.
with a ICH5 chipset it bypasses the PCI bus limitation ~ very appealing.

:-)

[Duvie]

That very well may be true, but do you know of any review for the raptors where it is not tested in a raid config???

NOw raid means two identical drives ran but together only have half the physical space right??? 2 drives wth exact same info???

I would love to have endless cash but to buy 80gb of HDD's for 300 bucks and only have 40gb of staorage for my video/audio stuff would be disheartening.....

I guess I would keep my 40gb WD drive as storage and sell my 45gb Maxtor drive...I have 85gb of space and usually only have 20-30gb free so I need more then 40 overall...

[ThugsRook]

no ~ raid is dual channel.

space is 1:1 cause a file is split between 2 drives. half of it on 1 drive and half on the other. so when you open it, you effectively have 2 drives working for you to open a single file.
factor in ICH5 and youve got some serious thruput.

id link you to a single drive review if i knew of one.
PJ is setting up a pair of raptors as we speak.
ask him to run some single drive tests before its too late.

:-)

[oldfart]

I wonder how noisy 2 x 10K RPM drives would be?? Noisy PC make me want to :smash:

[RotorHead]

Duvie, you can check this one out over at SR.

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200303/20030305WD360GD_1.html

Give it a look see :D

RH

[Duvie]

well that was a **** poor performance....barely beat the WD 200gb drive which was only ata....

Is there a chance this was done early in the products life cycle and thus may explain the lackluster performance???

I can't justify the money then...also it seems some of those other drives in a raid config may be jus as well, right???

Somehow will 2 drives just pull away and show the strength of the SATA platform???

[Tony]

Here is a single 40gig PATA WD 40gig JB on SATA converter to ICH5.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ad.leach/aopen%20benches/ax4spe%20max%20review/old%20bios/atto.JPG

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ad.leach/aopen%20benches/ax4spe%20max%20review/old%20bios/hdtach.JPG

[ThugsRook]

it looks like the SATA ICH5 interface gives the standard IDE WD only a very slight performance increase. (over my scores anyway)

im pretty sure that Raptor RAID on SATA ICH5 almost doubles those scores tho :eek2:

[Duvie]

Wow!!! Cpu utilization of 2%??? Random access time is worse then my drive right now....

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by Duvie
That very well may be true, but do you know of any review for the raptors where it is not tested in a raid config???

I don't have the raptor drives but I did have the 120 Gig SATA Seagate drive set up as a single drive on the ICH5R and the results are worst than what I get with my WD SE drives.

Here's the really disgusting part of the what I have so far discovered.

While waiting for my RMA'ed Canterwood mobo I built another AMD system. I got an ASuS A7N8x Deluxe rev 2.0 board. I tested the SATA drive on the SI controller-the drive was faster than it was on the ICH5R! It was faster by 5meg/sec. So I now have the WD SE on the IDE controller in my Gigabyte 8KNXP and the Seagate SATA drive in my currently dead due to a bios upgrade A7N8x board.

[ThugsRook]

im not surprised ~ my IDE hd scores on ICH5 are way below what they were on my ICH4 :(
(single wd80jb)

<EDIT> i fixed it! :rock:

[Duvie]

Not a raving endorsement unless I run in a Raid configuration, which I may have to do...however the cost is a bit more prohibitive now and I will have to way the options of 1gb of ram on a DCDDR mobo or faster HDD performance. I guess I capture DV data fine on my 7200rpm drives so I should just live with it...

[oldfart]

Duvie, in case you never saw these numbers, DV capture is nothing. You only need ~ 4 MB/Sec for full quality DV capture @ 720 x 480. Any decent drive can do 10x that. There are reasons to go RAID, but DV cap is not one of them.

[Duvie]

Originally posted by oldfart
Duvie, in case you never saw these numbers, DV capture is nothing. You only need ~ 4 MB/Sec for full quality DV capture @ 720 x 480. Any decent drive can do 10x that. There are reasons to go RAID, but DV cap is not one of them.

please elaborate as to what reasons you think are good to upgrade to a raid systems....