Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB @ 124.8mb/s

[vhelp]

Morning everyone.

I've alway been interested in HDD speeds, at least in mine, but never really got around to testing them.

Did we ever do a HDD speed/performance test on these boards, like we have in CPU (elsewhere on this board) ?
else, we could do for a new one of these, to parrelle the CPU thread.

* VideoHelp.com Video Benchmarking

ocgw, is this your own utility you created for testing HDD speeds or is there a D/L link. I hope its something really small and not a memory hog, in any case, otherwise I'll try and google around for one, there are probably many types, thanks..

We all know how image/video intensive are in terms of HDD performance. And this could actually help the members (myself included) in HDD choices and system upgrades.

-vhelp 5215

[ocgw]

Morning everyone.

I've alway been interested in HDD speeds, at least in mine, but never really got around to testing them.

Did we ever do a HDD speed/performance test on these boards, like we have in CPU (elsewhere on this board) ?
else, we could do for a new one of these, to parrelle the CPU thread.

* VideoHelp.com Video Benchmarking

ocgw, is this your own utility you created for testing HDD speeds or is there a D/L link. I hope its something really small and not a memory hog, in any case, otherwise I'll try and google around for one, there are probably many types, thanks..

We all know how image/video intensive are in terms of HDD performance. And this could actually help the members (myself included) in HDD choices and system upgrades.

-vhelp 5215

Sup -vhelp?

HD tach is a small free utility that has been around for years, it is very popular, and Tom's hardware uses it so when you test your system you can get an "apples and apples" comparison, it is especially useful for seeing exactly what kind of performance you are getting out of your RAID arrays

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

HD Tach works on flash memory as well

ps. HD Tune is another well regarded free HDD benchmarking utility

While not free, Sisoft Sandra is another 1 of my fav benchmarking utilities for cpu, memory and HDD performance, it is however "free to try"

http://download.cnet.com/SiSoftware-Sandra/3000-2086_4-10556571.html

btw. BD Rebuilder is "i/o operation limited" (HDD) on the 1st pass, and "cpu limited" on the 2nd pass

I got the highest fps w/ my AMD Phenom II X4 940 in the rallynavvie video encoding benchmark on the first pass beating out i7's and even dual quad Xeon's due to the fact I was writing from 1 high speed HDD to another, the slower "cpu limited" 2nd pass showed the Intel platforms to be superior encoders

Flash Memory Toolkit is good for benchmarking read and write speeds on flash memory

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Benchmarks/Flash-Memory-Toolkit.shtml

ocgw

peace

[vhelp]

Excellent! Thanks!

I grabbed a few new tools..

HDTach-3-0-4-0.exe -- http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/download.php?request=HdTach
Flash Memory Toolkit v1.0 -- http://www.flashmemorytoolkit.com/files/fmtinstall.exe -- version 1.0
Disk Bench v2.5.3.2 -- http://nodesoft.com/DiskBench/DiskBench.zip

-vhelp 5217

[ocgw]

I fresh installed both XP 32-bit and Win 7 x64 Ultimate "Signature edition" in a dual boot config, boot times are really nice w/ a single high speed drive, performance is the best I have experienced w/o RAID

My advice to anyone loading Win 7 for the first time? let Win 7 load your NIC driver to get you on the net for updates, but don't use Microsoft Update's "optional" hardware drivers for your (TV Tuner, sound card, gfx card) if there is a Win 7 driver available from the manufacturers site

ocgw

peace

[rallynavvie]

My advice to anyone loading Win 7 for the first time? let Win 7 load your NIC driver to get you on the net for updates, but don't use Microsoft Update's "optional" hardware drivers for your (TV Tuner, sound card, gfx card) if there is a Win 7 driver available from the manufacturers site

It's been that way almost forever. Driver signing is really only important for enterprise solutions.

[ocgw]

My advice to anyone loading Win 7 for the first time? let Win 7 load your NIC driver to get you on the net for updates, but don't use Microsoft Update's "optional" hardware drivers for your (TV Tuner, sound card, gfx card) if there is a Win 7 driver available from the manufacturers site

It's been that way almost forever. Driver signing is really only important for enterprise solutions.

Agreed, but what I am getting @ is that if you load the MS drivers "for now", and intend on upgrading to the latest drivers later you can run into problems

Specifically if I Load the MS Updates driver for my Hauppauge HVR-1600 when I go to install the driver from the Hauppauge site (driver & Win TV 7 CD package) it will fail to stop the service, you can't stop the service in services.msc, then I have to remember the fix I found where you disable some "share permissions" or something or another

On my Gigabyte mobo if I "upgrade" from the NIC driver on the Win 7 disc to the MS "signed" NIC driver it will break my internet

I have learned how to make a flawless install w/ Win 7 from the disc, as long as I remember these 2 quirks

ocgw

peace