Raptor question....

[BIC]

Hey,

I got a Raptor 150G in my last Rig. My nefew got a Barracuda 250G in his new rig. Is this possible that his Barracuda is a lot faster than my Raptor?

For instance, tonight we were both palying BF2 (one beside each other) connected to my router. He always load his maps at the beginning of a new round faster than me. His client data check is also much faster. Always faster, a lot faster??? He also load programs faster than me.

We have same Motherboard, Memory and CPU.

Do I have to check some config on my computer that would explain why my Raptor is not faster than his Barracuda 250G?

I thought Raptor was the fastest???

[imported_Wreck]

Re: Raptor question....

It shouldn't be faster, but they are close in game loading performance by five seconds or less. See for yourself:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2690&p=7

[BIC]

Re: Raptor question....

It shouldn't be faster, but they are close in game loading performance by five seconds or less. See for yourself:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/sho...spx?i=2690&p=7

The problem is that the Raptor is a lot slower

[UNDIESRULES]

Re: Raptor question....

Is it formatted using NTFS? Also have a look in your BIOS and check you have HDD Smart enabled.

[BIC]

Re: Raptor question....

I dowloaded a Hard disk spped test called HD Tach

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public...request=HdTach

This program tells me this for my HD (Raptor):
Random access : 8.1 ms
CPU utilization: 44%
Average Read: 10 MB
Burst Speed: 11.3

This program tells me this for my nefew HD (Barracuda 250G):
Random access : 13.6ms
CPU utilization: 2%
Average Read: 56.8 MB
Burst Speed: 241 MB/s

What is going on?

My other HD gets this for the same test:
Random access : 15.5ms
CPU utilization: 1%
Average Read: 48.9 MB
Burst Speed: 116 MB/s

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: Raptor question....

Roight, here we go.

Did the raptors come with the drivers?

Is the Nephew's computer the primary gateway to the net? Does your machine have to fight his machine for the bandwidth?

Do you have SATA connected to that Raptor?

[BIC]

Re: Raptor question....

Is it formatted using NTFS? Also have a look in your BIOS and check you have HDD Smart enabled.

NTFS = yes

HDD Smart enabled = yes

[SgT.uK]

Re: Raptor question....

what about graphics settings and video cards? the lower your settings the faster the game loads.

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Raptor question....

Tested my 150GB Raptor and got:

Random Access: 8.0ms
CPU utilization: 4%
Average Read:75.8 MB/s
Burst Speed: 138.2 MB/s

Just to give you something to compare to.

[k0nsl]

Re: Raptor question....

Its probably running in PIO mode. Follow these details:

Change the settings in "ide/ata controllers" in device manager. Open each channel, look for advanced settings and change the transfer mode to DMA.

-k0nsl

[BIC]

Re: Raptor question....

Ok, I resolved the problem.

My Raptor was connected on my SATA-1 port on the MB and my Maxtor (second HD) was connected on SATA-2 port.

I moved my Raprot to the SATA-3 port. Now I get the exact same result than lil_jimmy_norton:

Tested my 150GB Raptor and got:

Random Access: 8.0ms
CPU utilization: 4%
Average Read:75.8 MB/s
Burst Speed: 138.2 MB/s

Just to give you something to compare to.

Thanks alot for the test you did.

To answer k0nsl:

Its probably running in PIO mode. Follow these details:

Change the settings in "ide/ata controllers" in device manager. Open each channel, look for advanced settings and change the transfer mode to DMA.

Everything was DMA.

To Heavy552(AWG)

Did the raptors come with the drivers?

Does the Raptor have special drivers?

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: Raptor question....

No they dont have special drivers, I tossed that one out there as a red herring.

[BIC]

Re: Raptor question....

Tested my 150GB Raptor and got:

Random Access: 8.0ms
CPU utilization: 4%
Average Read:75.8 MB/s
Burst Speed: 138.2 MB/s

Just to give you something to compare to.

Look here:

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=raptor150raid&page=5

How can they get a burst of 554 MB/s

Any idea?

Here is more like ours:

http://xtreview.com/articles.php?id=27&view=western_digital_raptor__150_,_wd_150_sata_10,000_rpm

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Raptor question....

Look here:

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=raptor150raid&page=5

How can they get a burst of 554 MB/s

Any idea?

Here is more like ours:

http://xtreview.com/articles.php?id=...ata_10,000_rpm

Must not be measured in MB.

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: Raptor question....

A Pair of Maxtor SATA's as a RAID on the ASUS P-4P800-E Deluxe Motherboard

8 Test

Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 1.10
Tested 2006-05-14 at 20:00
Random Access 14.2 ms
CPU utilization 8% (+/-2%)
Average Read 94.2 Mb/sec
Burst 113.5 Mb/sec

32 Test

Promise 2+0 Stripe/RAID0 1.10
Tested 2006-05-14 at 20:02
Random Access 14.9 ms
CPU utilization 4% (+/-2%)
Average Read 94.7 Mb/sec
Burst is 113.9 mb/sec


Numbers are nothing special, but I am in process of replacing all the drives anyway later this year as the drives I have are reaching end of life.