WD640Gb Black 64Mb SATA3

[Cecil]

http://i864.photobucket.com/albums/ab207/ctmaudi/Bench%20Results/HDD%20Benches/WD640SATA3Tweaked.jpg

Thats with write-cache buffering off, nothing else done to it. Transfer speeds are pretty good, but I think it does very well in the file benchmark.

Not a bad $80 storage drive :thumbsup:

[FACE]

Hell, I use my 500gb Black's for benching. No $$$ yet for ssd's.... too many parts that are more important... :ohcrap:

Thanks for posting the results! Very helpful :thumbsup:

[Hondacity]

Hell, I use my 500gb Black's for benching. No $$$ yet for ssd's.... too many parts that are more important... :ohcrap:

Thanks for posting the results! Very helpful :thumbsup:

when i'm benching ..i usually get 10-30 bsods or videocard freezes..

reboot with ssd is so much faster....windows load time is in about 12 seconds compared to hdd which is about 30seconds for vraptors...

access time of ssd is many much faster...:thumbsup:

[Cecil]

when i'm benching ..i usually get 10-30 bsods or videocard freezes..

reboot with ssd is so much faster....windows load time is in about 12 seconds compared to hdd which is about 30seconds for vraptors...

access time of ssd is many much faster...:thumbsup:

I have about 7 36Gb raptors, one for each platform. With XP 32bit bench OS, from power on to windows takes about 10 seconds.

With my daily Vlited Win7 64bit on my SSD, its about 22 seconds from power button to on.

[DrNip]

Yeppers. I have this same drive for my backup drive.

[Splave]

This is my storage drive as well :) I have dropped it from 5 feets about 100x now, hot swapped it in and out 100x and still kicking like new.

[punx223]

when i'm benching ..i usually get 10-30 bsods or videocard freezes..

reboot with ssd is so much faster....windows load time is in about 12 seconds compared to hdd which is about 30seconds for vraptors...

access time of ssd is many much faster...:thumbsup:

whats your point?

anyone whos benched ssd's knows they arent worth SHAT..... they corrupt too easy....

this drive is the SHIZ, and if you havent sold already please pm me and I will buy just for teh pure fact that im drunk and hate to see people piss on others sale threads...


call me an asshole if you want but thats just crap my friend :Hi:


pm me ill take it

[Hondacity]

never had corruption on my ssds...

[FACE]

Not having corruption means you aren't pushing hard enough.

It's easy to say ssd's are better benchers when you do not push them... the proof is in the pudding. Hard disks corrupt less at higher clocks... Period. It has a lot to do with the way and rate the drives write.

LOL @ Punx's drunken schoolings. Btw this is not a FS thread. It is a hdd info thread. Still does not need pooping on. :thumbsup:

[punx223]

never had corruption on my ssds...

SSD's corrupt very easy if not very stable.... try overclocking higher than than a dummy OC with one. (have a backup image ready btw ;))

and im not trying to be a dick honda, but what you did would be like me posting pics and timeslips of my blown stroker motored car, and you jumping in and saying yeah thats nice but a $1.2M Bugatti can go way faster. Yes it can but mine is still thje more practical/affordable/stable solution by far.



Not having corruption means you aren't pushing hard enough.

It's easy to say ssd's are better benchers when you do not push them... the proof is in the pudding. Hard disks corrupt less at higher clocks... Period. It has a lot to do with the way and rate the drives write.

LOL @ Punx's drunken schoolings. Btw this is not a FS thread. It is a hdd info thread. Still does not need pooping on. :thumbsup:

lmao.... I saw a price on the bottom and know that cecil has been selling alot on here recently :blush:

Ill still buy it or them lol just to mess with but i think my raid 0 300GB vr's may still be ok for data

[rickss69]

Why do I have this feeling I have just been "spammed" ? :Dizzy:

[Chuchnit]

Why do I have this feeling I have just been "spammed" ? :Dizzy:

Partially fixed.


You guys need to chill out. I didn't see any attempt by Honda to cause any harm to this thread. Same team here guys, please act like it.


Shannon, one more drunken post and you gotta livestream in your skivies. :taunt:

[FACE]

Shannon, one more drunken post and you gotta livestream in your skivies. :taunt:
[/Hat]

Be careful, he just might do it....

[Chuchnit]

Be careful, he just might do it....

:Dizzy:

Wait, scratch that. No naked Shannon's here. :laughing:

[DrNip]

Here's mine on my Sata 2. Need to hook her back up to my Sata 3 and see what she does.

http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2333&stc=1&d=1274633062

[FACE]

In for the sata 3 results.... :thumbsup:

[DrNip]

Here is my Sata 3 results. I don't run on my sata 3 ports as this Marvell controller is bullshit. Kept getting hang ups and OS freezes. $300 waste of money on this Asus mobo. If I known then what I know now I would have just picked up a couple of these hdd's and a sata 2 mobo and ran with it and save some major money in the end. Now I have a $679 ssd that I can't reap the benefits of sata 3 with until I get another mobo. :(

http://www.overclockaholics.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2334&stc=1&d=1274645376

[Cecil]

What board are you on? Did you do anything to the HDD, or is that just how it came? Your transfer speeds are way higher, but your file benchmark isnt as high as mine.
hhmmm

[DrNip]

ASUS P6X58D Premium

Nothing has been done to the HDD or OS.

[Cecil]

ASUS P6X58D Premium

Nothing has been done to the HDD or OS.

I wonder if there is something wrong with mine, or if SB850 is slowing it down? Its weird though, cause its faster with the SSD I have then the EVGA X58 I had.

[Cecil]

Finally decided to ditch the SSD and go back to HDDs. Grabbed another one of these for RAID0.

[Hondacity]

why ditch the ssd? its quiet and less power hungry...

[DrNip]

I don't get why people are ditching their SSD's all the time. They must have had some shitty ones or something. I don't think I will ever be able to go back to HHD's. LOL Mushkin and Crucial have me spoiled.

[Cecil]

I have a Gskill Phoenix Pro 60Gb, and its just anoying all the crap you have to do to keep them running normal. Plus, I never had any room to install games or anything, and I can live with a few extra seconds to boot windows. Id rather have 1200Gb of quick space then 60Gb of fast space. Plus, I needed a Vista install to play certain games that dont work on Win7, and wouldnt have been able to use TRIM with Vista.

[Cecil]

Here is the larger partition with Win7 on it, just over 1Tb.

[FACE]

wonder how big of a gain you would get by short stroking those to 1/2 lba size? ;)

[Hondacity]

short stroking...sounds porny....lol

does wd have a short stroking tool?

[Cecil]

wonder how big of a gain you would get by short stroking those to 1/2 lba size? ;)
The first image is short stroked to 120Gb. The normal bench lost some speed on the 1tb run, but the file bench is much improved.
short stroking...sounds porny....lol

does wd have a short stroking tool?

All you have to do is set up RAID with less then full size to short stroke.

[Neuromancer]

The first image is short stroked to 120Gb. The normal bench lost some speed on the 1tb run, but the file bench is much improved.

All you have to do is set up RAID with less then full size to short stroke.

Random tests will perform better . The newer large mechanical drives REALLY benefit from sustained traffic. The big difference is small file size transfers.
Any drive can be tuned for a test though.


I think HC is talking about a specific size. Instead of partitioning a drive smaller (which is enough in my limited experience) but physically tell the motherboard that the drive is only so large. While short stroking a partition on a mechanical drive improves performance. Short stroking the entire drive in theory reduces the overhead on the LBA controller also. Assuming that is what HC is talking about.