alpha0ne

My 2 shiny new drives arrived yesterday thanks to Simline.Com , very fast service

Of course I set them up raid 0 on my Ultra D after first using the Hitachi Feature Tool to enable the 3.0GB/s setting with Spread Spectrum Clocking ENABLED and Acoustic Management @ default = Disabled

Stripe size was set @ 32k in the nVidia Raid Config Bios settup with windows installed at the default unit size.

Here is a shot of my first two runs imposed onto the one graph using HD Tach Ver. 3.0.1.0





All I can say ATM is that I am STUNNED

eva2000

sweet ... ATTO and sandra filesystem and pcmark04/05 next

T_M

Was that fast or long runs?
Graph seems to have very few data points compared to when ive done runs.
Sexy as burst speeds there

alpha0ne

Fast, 8MB zones

R6_

Looks nice. But I have a dumb question. As I am a dumb user ( more lazy then dumb )

How do these drives compare to the WD Raptors?

Lets say I loading a BF2 Map. Which will be faster and roughly by how much? Not asking for exact figures here.

Also is there a special benefit in Raiding them in 0 apart from having 1 logical drive?

Thanks all.

You local dumb user. R6

alpha0ne

According to my benchies that I will post pics of tomorror they equal 2 x 36GB Raptors for speed except you get heaps more space at nearly half the cost

eva2000

Check this out Hitachi 7K500 [news] 500GB Hitachi 7K500 Deskstar breaks PCmark04 HDD 11k barrier

T_M

burst speed looks higher than my 2 x 36Gb's, sustained is about the same