Benching HDD's

[Sir Golitech]

I'm curios, how many of you have seperate hard drives strickly for benchmarking?

[nutcase]

I have 4 just for benching :)

[woodman]

Yep, 4 -6 most of the time, 1 portable for data, screenies, apps

[Just Learnin']

Not I, but you left out the "I wish I did" option....;)

[Sir Golitech]

What would be a good average size for a benching hdd?

I use a 20gig, but I think that's overkill.

[boshuter]

I think most people have seperate hdd's unless they bench with their everyday pc. I use different hdd's with different OS's on them and if I'm going to run PCmark I'll set up a drive just for that because it requires so much crap that other benches don't need.

[Just Learnin']

Is RAID0 beneficial in benchmarks other than PCMark? :scratch:

[top game 22]

I bench with my everyday pc but it has 3 x 150G raptors raid o.. no back up drive. may be one day i will build a just bench system when i have the time and cash..;)

[Just Learnin']

Is RAID0 beneficial in benchmarks other than PCMark? :scratch:


:p *Bumpity bump* :hide:

[top game 22]

:p *Bumpity bump* :hide: I beleave so for crystalmark. and some other benches may be all...;)

[Just Learnin']

Thanks Top Game, Crystalmark totally slipped my mind. :o I was thinking more of the Futuremark products.

[sbinh]

Would WinRar be considered one of them ?

[harleybro]

As far as crystalmark I think the three parts of the bench used for fw would not be affected.

SG: 20 is overkill but works fine. I have a few of them myself. :chit:

top game 22: I am jealous of the three raptors in raid0. :rock: I have two raptors to set up raid0 but it will be strictly for PCMark then they will go back to being individual benching drives.

[bf2nut]

Is RAID0 beneficial in benchmarks other than PCMark? :scratch:


yes,map loading times in all games.something the tops thats that is a gigabyte i-ram loaded with 4 gigs of top quality ram,wanna go further theh that?raid 0 using
2 i-rams.:thumb:

click the video for windows load times to give u a idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PiYgBhAkAM

[BeeHay]

yes,map loading times in all games.something the tops thats that is a gigabyte i-ram loaded with 4 gigs of top quality ram,wanna go further theh that?raid 0 using
2 i-rams.:thumb:

click the video for windows load times to give u a idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PiYgBhAkAM

i-ram :bow:

[Sir Golitech]

i-ram agree :bow:

Funny with all this going on, I was looking for another benching hdd and came across my old Voodoo 5 5500PCI, so I decided to pull it out and do a 3DMark01 bench.

Scored 2570 all stock, including PC. This should funny for an hwbot submit. Oh yeah and the other hdd I did end up finding, though it is a 30gig.

EDIT:
Another thing, do you guys have an OS on each of the drives, or just a bench program, while using another seperate drive with an OS on it?

[harleybro]

I-ram is great and I am still thinking about grabbing one to try but......FM does not allow I-ram scores although hwbot does. ;) So if you do bench with I-ram make sure you screenie it including the breakdown of your score along with scoring. I would also suggest posting in the description the i-ram drive was used.

SG: I do have the OS loaded on other drives. Best grouping I could see would be as follows: (Mind you I don't use this many drives loaded but just a suggestion if you have them laying around) :yup:

1 Drive w/ windows 2000 for 3Dmark2001 but only if you are benching older cards. Newer cards seem to do just fine with WinXP.

1 Drive w/ windows 2003 server for benching super pi

1 Drive w/ windows XP for any other 3Dmark testing

2 Drive raid0 w/ vista for running PCMark05

[Just Learnin']

Oh for... see post 14 here HB: http://www.hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=918&page=2

Where have you been living? :scratch: :hide: :deviltail

[harleybro]

Oh for... see post 14 here HB: http://www.hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=918&page=2

Where have you been living? :scratch: :hide: :deviltail

Thanks for the info. Don't you know on weekends I live in the forrest and eat twigs and berries? :p

[Just Learnin']

So are you going to use i-RAM for FW??? :cool: :bow: Don't answer with your mouth full!!! :yikes: :hide:

[harleybro]

So are you going to use i-RAM for FW??? :cool: :bow: Don't answer with your mouth full!!! :yikes: :hide:

Nope no i-ram yet since I just picked up a new PSU. Maybe some raptors in Raid0 if it helps. ;)

[Sir Golitech]

Well I found another drive for benching :wpleased: 3gig a little small maybe?

Oh yeah and I nailed 6th for my Voodoo 5 5500 at stock :wpleased:

[Just Learnin']

Depending on what benchmarks you are doing SG a larger disk, even two can be useful. I was able to shave 22 seconds off a 32M SuperPI run by using Copy Wazaa. It consists of copying a LARGE file or folder of files from one disk to another and hitting start on your run just as the file completes copying. The folder/file in my case was over 4GB. Also Page files may need a little room to work in as well for some benchmarks.