apple_core Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 I've added three Samsung Spinpoint F3 7,200 RPM 1TB drives to my system. Using Disk Utility I created a striped volume with all three disks. Since it's a striped drive I don't loose any space and I gain the spindle count for performance! For my root volume I am using a WD 10,000RPM 300GB Velociraptor drive. I ran Xbench 1.3 and benchmarked my 10K Velociraptor at 98.64. I then ran Xbench against the new 3TB three drive volume I created and got a result of 410.39!! Yes, 410!!!! I'll be using this new drive for my Photoshop swap along with general movie and files storage. I'm just passing along some good information. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233686-added-a-3-disk-striped-volume/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple_core Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 Here are actual benchmark numbers: From Xbench 1.3: Disk Test Sequential Uncached Write 473.56 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 420.46 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 44.85 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 341.95 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random Uncached Write 70.35 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 371.80 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 2.08 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 60.18 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/233686-added-a-3-disk-striped-volume/#findComment-1561147 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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