System->Admin->Disk Utility->Benchmark results

[andrewabc]

Post your benchmark results. I only did read benchmark as it gave error for read/write saying hard drive needs to be empty (I'm running RC on liveusb)

I have asus eeebox b202 160gb 5400RPM

I'm really interested to see what people get and whether this benchmark utility gives 1/2 decent results.

Anyone with SSD please test. I want to see if it gives out numbers similar to what ssd are supposed to provide or if not good for ssd benchmarking. Wondering whether worth it to buy 30gb ssd for eeebox as read/write speeds are slow for obvious reasons (I already have 60gb ssd in main computer).

Oddly it states my hard drive is connected by ATA, but I'm pretty sure it is SATA (ICH7, SATA IDE host controller).

I ran the test on my ocz rally2 usb stick and got 31.1 min read, 34.9 max read, 34mb/s average read. Average access time 0.9ms


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EDIT:
The ATA thing is probably a bug, as it says all HDD/SSD are ATA for model.

[Tweak42]

Thanks for pointing out the nifty bench utility feature.

Your drive may be showing up under IDE mode if you don't have the controller set to ahci/sata in the bios. Just beware switching modes can halt a WinXP partition from booting; linux, vista and win7 seem handle switching it ok.

I'm using a 60gb SSD (indilinx barefoot chip), intel sata ICH8M controller.

min: 83.2 MB/s
max: 231.7 MB/s
avg: 192.4 MB/s
avg access: 0.2ms

[sdowney717]

neat utility
this is my output for a sata 750GB

[andrewabc]

Thanks for the info Tweak42. Glad to see 192 average, I have 60gb indilinx as well. Great stuff, and prices are dropping good now.
Maybe change your signature to say 60gb SSD?

Thanks for the HDD benchmark sdowney717

EDIT:
60gb ocz vertex
min 177.5
max 229.7
avg 221.3
access time 0.2ms
Above is good news. I have old firmware(1.3), but I am only using 6gb, so that is probably why so fast.

320gb Hitachi 7200rpm 8mb cache
min 37.2
max 78.5
avg 63.9
access time 13.6 ms

1tb WD caviar green 64mb cache
min 48.8
max 117.9
avg 85.7
access time 14.3 ms

Can anyone confirm if safe to do read/write benchmark? Don't want to screw any of my stuff up.

[tokyobadger]

WD 640G 7200rpm 32M cache
Min 38.6
Max 119.6
Avg 97.3
Acc 12.2

WD 150G Velociraptor 10k rpm 16M cache
Min 45.2
Max 131.3
Avg 106.3
Acc 7.1

WD 150G Raptor 10k rpm 16M cache
Min 51.8
Max 77.0
Avg 68.7
Acc 8.3

Those were first runs - repeat them and the numbers change a bit (not much)

[cariboo907]

I got 2X250Gb drives in this system 1 SATA and 1 PATA

[buellman]

Can anyone confirm if safe to do read/write benchmark? Don't want to screw any of my stuff up.

Try it It will tell you the following:

A partition table was detected - write benchmarking requires the disk to be completely empty

[andrewabc]

Try it It will tell you the following:

Yes, I noticed that for HDD.
For my SSD it only asked if I was sure I wanted to do the read/write. No mention of it needing to be empty or a partition.
I didn't do it because I figured it would corrupt my SSD install. A better warning would be appreciated as someone is likely to run the test because not enough warning given.

[Erlander]

Thanks for pointing out the nifty bench utility feature.

Your drive may be showing up under IDE mode if you don't have the controller set to ahci/sata in the bios. Just beware switching modes can halt a WinXP partition from booting; linux, vista and win7 seem handle switching it ok.

Thank you for this info.

I has wondered why I was getting error messages "ATA1 device not ready. Softreset failed" on bootup.

Changing over to ahic/sata fixed that and although Ubuntu could read the Win XP partitions XP did not boot. I see a re-install of Win XP coming up! Sigh!