Hi storage fans,
I just downloaded and ran the ATTO benchmark. If I click the help file windows tells me there isn't one so the test means nothing to me. I get red and green bars with numbers at either side. What do they mean?
How big is the cluster size? It almost looks like a score from a filesystem that was converted from fatr to ntfs or maybe it burped and just hita place that was fragmented as the top graphs are sucky for the reads.
The 50,000 is fine but the reads ramped up very slow. They are usually equal or graeter then teh writes when everything is right.
My knowledge is nowhere near yours Tex but I think I know what you mean. It was a brand new drive on Saturday, there is not much on it yet. I did format it FAT32 originally but then went NTFS before putting anything on it. Would that explain it?
edit - cluster size? I don't know, I left it at default on the Seagate software that formatted it.
Only if you didnt reformat but simply converted it from fat32 to ntfs. Was there any data on it when you converted it to ntfs for example? That would be a clue. Converting from fat to ntfs screws up the cluster size horribly. If its not actually in heavy use yet and you can reformat I would do it. And don't use any addon software crap from the drive manufacture. Just let XP or whatever do a full format on the rascal. Is this a second drive you added in to a system already running XP? Have you got enough room on teh other drive to backup any data real quick? How big is it anyway?
I think that's what I did. It's a 120Gb drive and FAT32 would only let me have a few 30+Gb partitions, I wanted one big one so I just converted it. I do have space on the other drives to copy stuff across. I'll try that. Thanks Tex.
What controller is it on? Try formating it with a bigger cluster size. if you used the defualt of 4k.
The score isnt really worse but its no where near right either . Thats on a empty drive right? Your eads should be as high or higher on the writes on the top of that graph ALWAYS. You can get times that writes get higher on the end of a drive when its like 85 percent full but never on a empty drive.
Who made the drive? Some come set to be super quiet which makes the heads slower and they have utilitys to turn that off and make the seeks faster.
It should look like this. This is a 120gb maxtor. One of the cheap ones without 8mb cache.
Its one thing if the reads are SLIGHTLY below the writes. WD's commonly have a drop for about to lines but see how your reads are in the hundreds? and stay pitiful until the end? Either you got a flawed drive or the goofy software they had you use mucked it up. But I wouldn't accept that either.
Cheers Tex. It's on IDE2, at the moment on its own. It's a Seagate 120Gb 7200rpm. I did leave the cluster size at the default 4k. I'll redo it with bigger clusters and get back in a day or two.
Thanks again.
I thought I'd compare the other drives after what Tex says about reads being upto or greater than writes, Here's the results. Does this mean there is something else wrong? Drive C is IDE1 master, D is IDE1 Slave and E is IDE2 master on it's own.
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The 50,000 is fine but the reads ramped up very slow. They are usually equal or graeter then teh writes when everything is right.
Tex
edit - cluster size? I don't know, I left it at default on the Seagate software that formatted it.
Tex
The score isnt really worse but its no where near right either . Thats on a empty drive right? Your eads should be as high or higher on the writes on the top of that graph ALWAYS. You can get times that writes get higher on the end of a drive when its like 85 percent full but never on a empty drive.
Who made the drive? Some come set to be super quiet which makes the heads slower and they have utilitys to turn that off and make the seeks faster.
It should look like this. This is a 120gb maxtor. One of the cheap ones without 8mb cache.
Its one thing if the reads are SLIGHTLY below the writes. WD's commonly have a drop for about to lines but see how your reads are in the hundreds? and stay pitiful until the end? Either you got a flawed drive or the goofy software they had you use mucked it up. But I wouldn't accept that either.
Tex
Thanks again.
Some actually make some adjustments after they are powered on and off a number of times.
Tex