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f0dder:
Hey everybody,

finally scraped some cash together and got me a shining new disk: a 74GB Raptor drive. Of course I now want to benchmark the drive, and I don't really know which non-pay tools are any good? I know there's a free lite version of SiSoft Sandra, but nothing happens when I try to launch it :(

jgpaiva:
 ;D Great coincidence!
A few days ago, i was in the exact same situation. I found this. It doesn't present extensive information, but works very well and alowed to, at least, compare my 2 disks and my friends' disks. It was also useful to know the read and write speed of my disks :)

f0dder:
Thanks, at least that's a starting point :)

Doesn't seem too comprehensive, and it's annoying that there isn't some "report window" to copy-paste from... but it'll do for now. Thanks!  :Thmbsup:

dk70:
HDtach is among standard benchmarks for hds I believe http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach

See what they use at Storagereview http://www.storagereview.com/ or http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/english.html?/be_hdd.html - or this review of same disk http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q1/raptor-wd740gd/index.x?pg=1 though you probably got new 16mb cache model.

f0dder:
I eventually re-remembered HD-tach, which is pretty nice - free version doesn't do write tests, but read test is nice enough to get a good indication of drive speed anyway. Yup, got the 16meg model.

Performance does seem decent:
disk/filesystem benchmarking

But getting Windows installed on the drive always ends up with "Cannot load operating system" - *grmbl*. Somehow mixing SATA (the raptor) and PATA (my plextor DVD) always ends up giving trouble; funny enough RAID seems less problematic, probably because it shows up as a SCSI drive.

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