BAD peformance of all single SATA drives on Asus P4P800/P4C800 mobos?!..
And as if I have not hawked the Raptor enough, I forgot to mention in comes
with a "legacy" 4-pin Molex power connector built in so no power adapter is need. Koop "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks, J. "koop" wrote in message .com... The WD Raptor does make more noise than the WD 800JB, well, not so much more noise but a higher pitched more noticeable sound than the 800JB, the price to be paid for 10K RPM. I was a little concerned at first listening to the Raptor outside of my case, but once I got it installed with everything running I only hear it when it powers up and I have a water-cooled rig built for quiet. I think the 800JB is the quietest HD I have ever owned so maybe a straight comparison is not fair, but to say the Raptor makes more sound, or at least a less aesthetically pleasing sound, is accurate. Koop "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info - a noticeable speed increase indeed. One question, how noisey is that Raptor? How does it compare with noise to the WD? Oops, that's two questions. J. "koop" wrote in message m... I also have a single Raptor, but running on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, achieving an almost identical HD Tach 2.61 Average Read speed: Random Access Time: 8.4ms Max Read: 78446 kps Min Read: 31531 kps Ave Read: 48586.6 kps I also have a WD 800JB "Special Edition" PATA drive w/8MB cache: Random Access Time: 13.5ms Max Read: 49135 kps Min Read: 24291 kps Ave Read: 40461.4 kps In addition to confirming Gilles's Average Read speed, this shows a 38% increase in Random Access speed, and a 20% gain in Average Read speed against one of the faster (once the fastest) PATA drives out there. This is all, of course, due to the 10,000 RPM platter in the Raptor and not the SATA interface, but regardless it is FAST and the SATA cables are so much easier to work with I very enthusiastically recommend getting a Raptor if your circumstances will allow it. Koop -- http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=905761 XP 2500+ @ 11.5*200 A7N8X DLX 2.0 2x256MB Corsair PC3200LL @ 2-2-2-6 ATI Radeon Pro 9800 WD Raptor 10K RPM SATA - WD 800JB SE Eheim 1250 w/ 1/2"ID Clearflex MCW5000+MCW50+'86 Chevette Core CPU 33C Idle 36C Full Load "Gilles Labelle" wrote in message ... Hello, Here is my HTTach results with my P4P800 and a SATA Raptor max read speed : 58838kps min read speed : 25020kps average speed : 48654kps wrote in message ... Hi, In following review about the Asus P4P800 here http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDg0LDM=they mention in the "IDE/ATA Performance" section: "The SATA single drive performance is the worst of the bunch, trailing the IDE drive results by approximately 10 MB/s on both the average read and write performance." They even posted test result screenshots so you can see it for yourself. Does this mean if I only gonna use 1 harddisk with this mobo, I better take an IDE harddisk instead of a SATA harddisk?! I can't undertand why single SATA is so bad on this mobo, since SATA is integrated to the Southbridge on the P4P800 (Springdale) which should give good results, RAID or no RAID?! I am not giving up on this yet, so perhaps people who already have the P4P800 and use a single SATA drive could tell me what there read and write speeds are with there drive. Fact is they used a Barracuda SATA drive in there test, so perhaps other single SATA drives will score better?! I was planning to buy a single Maxtor SATA drive with this board, so first I want to know if single SATA drive performance is really that bad for all drives with the P4P800 or not! Normally 7200rpm drives can get around 60MB/s I believe, so with SATA (connected to the Southbridge) it must be possible to get higher scores, even with single drives, not?! In there test it was quite the opposite ("single SATA the worst of the bunch")! So I would really appreciate it if people who have the Asus P4P800 (or P4C800) mobo and use a single SATA drive (so no RAID) could post there read and write speeds! PS: if you buy a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA drive, does it also have a regular IDE connection in case using it that way would give better performance in a single drive setup. Thanks in advance!! Mike. |
Agreed, never would have gotten it if I didn't already have to 80GB drives.
Koop "John Smith" wrote in message ... Sounds good but I need it to be more GB for bucks... and cheaper bucks at that... before I make the move over. Obviously the future though and I think they will take over sooner than people think. J. "koop" wrote in message y.com... And as if I have not hawked the Raptor enough, I forgot to mention in comes with a "legacy" 4-pin Molex power connector built in so no power adapter is need. Koop "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks, J. "koop" wrote in message .com... The WD Raptor does make more noise than the WD 800JB, well, not so much more noise but a higher pitched more noticeable sound than the 800JB, the price to be paid for 10K RPM. I was a little concerned at first listening to the Raptor outside of my case, but once I got it installed with everything running I only hear it when it powers up and I have a water-cooled rig built for quiet. I think the 800JB is the quietest HD I have ever owned so maybe a straight comparison is not fair, but to say the Raptor makes more sound, or at least a less aesthetically pleasing sound, is accurate. Koop "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks for the info - a noticeable speed increase indeed. One question, how noisey is that Raptor? How does it compare with noise to the WD? Oops, that's two questions. J. "koop" wrote in message m... I also have a single Raptor, but running on an Asus A7N8X Deluxe, achieving an almost identical HD Tach 2.61 Average Read speed: Random Access Time: 8.4ms Max Read: 78446 kps Min Read: 31531 kps Ave Read: 48586.6 kps I also have a WD 800JB "Special Edition" PATA drive w/8MB cache: Random Access Time: 13.5ms Max Read: 49135 kps Min Read: 24291 kps Ave Read: 40461.4 kps In addition to confirming Gilles's Average Read speed, this shows a 38% increase in Random Access speed, and a 20% gain in Average Read speed against one of the faster (once the fastest) PATA drives out there. This is all, of course, due to the 10,000 RPM platter in the Raptor and not the SATA interface, but regardless it is FAST and the SATA cables are so much easier to work with I very enthusiastically recommend getting a Raptor if your circumstances will allow it. Koop -- http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=905761 XP 2500+ @ 11.5*200 A7N8X DLX 2.0 2x256MB Corsair PC3200LL @ 2-2-2-6 ATI Radeon Pro 9800 WD Raptor 10K RPM SATA - WD 800JB SE Eheim 1250 w/ 1/2"ID Clearflex MCW5000+MCW50+'86 Chevette Core CPU 33C Idle 36C Full Load "Gilles Labelle" wrote in message ... Hello, Here is my HTTach results with my P4P800 and a SATA Raptor max read speed : 58838kps min read speed : 25020kps average speed : 48654kps wrote in message ... Hi, In following review about the Asus P4P800 here http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDg0LDM=they mention in the "IDE/ATA Performance" section: "The SATA single drive performance is the worst of the bunch, trailing the IDE drive results by approximately 10 MB/s on both the average read and write performance." They even posted test result screenshots so you can see it for yourself. Does this mean if I only gonna use 1 harddisk with this mobo, I better take an IDE harddisk instead of a SATA harddisk?! I can't undertand why single SATA is so bad on this mobo, since SATA is integrated to the Southbridge on the P4P800 (Springdale) which should give good results, RAID or no RAID?! I am not giving up on this yet, so perhaps people who already have the P4P800 and use a single SATA drive could tell me what there read and write speeds are with there drive. Fact is they used a Barracuda SATA drive in there test, so perhaps other single SATA drives will score better?! I was planning to buy a single Maxtor SATA drive with this board, so first I want to know if single SATA drive performance is really that bad for all drives with the P4P800 or not! Normally 7200rpm drives can get around 60MB/s I believe, so with SATA (connected to the Southbridge) it must be possible to get higher scores, even with single drives, not?! In there test it was quite the opposite ("single SATA the worst of the bunch")! So I would really appreciate it if people who have the Asus P4P800 (or P4C800) mobo and use a single SATA drive (so no RAID) could post there read and write speeds! PS: if you buy a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA drive, does it also have a regular IDE connection in case using it that way would give better performance in a single drive setup. Thanks in advance!! Mike. |
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