SCSI benchmarks

[sharkeeper]

No one ever denies that current SCSI is the best. But most often when someone is looking for performance on a budget they come with the choice: current ATA or 3 year old SCSI. That is where the comparison needs to be made. And if you went out and bought a new $50 ATA drive it would likely be faster than most of your years old boot drives (which is another common myth that keeping old drives as boot drives is faster than a new cheap drive).

Why is everyone rebooting their systems so much?

hehehe

That said, a newer disk will always outperform the older generation. It seems that ATA disks have nearly leveled off in this area. Current SCSI disk generations are still improving considerably. Compare a X15 36LP with a 15.3 and you'll see what I mean.

-DAK-

 

[StraightPipe]

you guys seems to know whats up, I've jsut put in a RAID 0 config on 2 WD's (see sig)

I'm curious what about good programs to do benchmarking for personal comps (gaming, watching large video (700MB mpeg + DIVX), sharing on home network, os boot)

I'm going to check out IOMeter, HDTach, sandra, but what are relevant tests to my situation? (i really want to see if I'm benifiting any by having RAID0, or if I would have been better of getting a regular controller card. (i'm open to opinions, but I'd like to actually test my system to see performance gain/loss)

thanks from a newb to the storage realm

 

[Noriaki]

Dude you've got a 5ms seek time.

Seek Time is way more important than STR in average use.

I'll take a SCSI drive with 21MB/s and 5ms seek time over an ATA drive with 28MB/s and an "advertised" 8.9ms seek time any day of the week.

 

[bozo1]

My SCSI's bigger than your SCSI!