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Single Drive Seagate 7200.11 ST3500320AS 500GB Results

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VinnyTAMU

VinnyTAMU

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Here is my setup:
  • AMD AM2 setup (1.9 Ghz Brisbane, ECS 6100/405 chipset)
  • Installed VISTA Ultimate (32-bit) as entire (465Gb) partition
  • Set jumper to 3.0Gbs
  • Installed nForce SMBus, SMU, and Ethernet drivers
  • Disabled "Index this drive for faster searching"
  • Had "Enable write caching on the disk" for each test
  • Tests 2 & 3 had "Enable advanced performance" checked in addition to above
  • Tests 1 & 2 were Long bench (32mb zones) tests
  • Test 3 was the Quick bench (8mb zone) test
Test 1:
Test_001.jpg



Test 2:
Test_002.jpg



Test 3:
Test_003.jpg



CPU-Z:
Details.jpg
 
forget what i typed, the numbers just look low to me since im use to seeing the ICHxR's used ...

for the price they cant be beat!
 
I ran this one last night when I first got Windows set up. It's Intel Matrix RAID-0 with 128k stripe.

hdtachgc8.jpg


I can do a few more runs to get an average if you want.
 
subscribed.. i've been waiting to see this for a while. it's supposedly pretty quiet too (good for the HTPC)... did you notice it being noisy/quiet?
 
I was going to buy 4 500's for a RAID 5 storage array on a server I'm putting together, then I saw the Anand thing and chose 150GB Raptor X's instead. I'm starting to wonder if that was a good choice.
 
How many Raptors did you get? Those are hella fast drives, especially in RAID. :beer: But you're probably thinking the price/performance on those 500s is pretty darn good.
 
Unfortunately a Perc 5/i, I was close to talking the buyer into a ground up SuperMicro but they balked at the last minute.
 
leftheaded said:
subscribed.. i've been waiting to see this for a while. it's supposedly pretty quiet too (good for the HTPC)... did you notice it being noisy/quiet?
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It was very quite for me. My whole idea with going with the Brisbane was to get my rig as quite as possible, and compaired to my Deskstar T7K250 I could not hear this drive.

I wish I had two of these to raid but only had enough to get one. Hopefully someone will buy four of these for a matrix raid :beer:
 
2 74gb 16mb raptors in matrix raid

40gb matrix raid 0 right after fresh install
HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_Volume42.png

50gb matrix raid 0 right after fresh install
HDTune_Benchmark_Intel___Raid_0_Volume50gb.png
 
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