how do the xbench numbers look?

[rockinrocker]

i have no friggen' clue what any of this stuff means.....

i ran this with my stock boot drive (on 2.8 MP). are these numbers normal or is this drive kinda slow?

 

[trainguy77]

here is what i found for another mac pro same speed. http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc1=262842

The numbers are ALOT better then my mac pro

Disk Test 51.08
Sequential 98.66
Uncached Write 75.03 46.07 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 120.70 68.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.77 25.69 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 132.68 66.69 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 34.46
Uncached Write 11.56 1.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 86.58 27.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 91.75 0.65 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 139.92 25.96 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

[rockinrocker]

so then all things considered, mine seems to be coming out pretty well?

are you on a 2.66? were those drives slower or something?

 

[Shelton]

I am on a 2 x 2.8 MP. I get about a 161. My numbers are the same as yours except a much lower disk score, around 54. It is a 500GB drive. I think some of us just got slower drives?

I think it is just luck of the draw. If you got a Seagate HD, it is slow, at least from what I can tell.

 

[eyecool]

I got a 189.11. I'll run again after a reboot, which I haven't done in a while. I've got a lot of apps up, including Parallels which has 2 GB of ram dedicated for it.

Early 2008 MP, 10GB ram, WD stock 500GB, 8800gt

My hd bench is almost identical to yours...

 

[scottydawg]

Mine are posted here but I do have a few differences in my system:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/443667/

 

[benpatient]

I had an old dual 2.0 G5 that got really, really high scores because of the RAID 0 array I built in it. It did have very fast read/write speeds with big files, but it was never as fast as a mac pro...regardless of what xbench said.

xbench doesn't mean much.

 

[Cindori]

Xbench is a sucky benchmark program.

A Mac Pro could get like 150 points and the same Mac Pro with 5GB harddrive would get 2 points.

 

[rockinrocker]

so you guys are saying that even for basic stuff like hdd speed it doesn't tell you much?

are there other freeware options?

 

[trainguy77]

so then all things considered, mine seems to be coming out pretty well?

are you on a 2.66? were those drives slower or something?

Yeah its on a 2.66 ghz but those drives are 7200.9s the .10s didn't get much better. The new mac pros shouldn't get better drive scores with the same HDs so the new mac pros just have different drives i assume.

 

[Firefly2002]

XBench is a fairly useless means of comparison, even when looking at specific benchmarks. It's probably less useful than MacBench was, whose code was small enough to fit on the backside cache of 604e and G3 computers with a full 1 MB of cache, reflected when the cache was OC'd- something which almost never affected real world performance.

They results are wildly variable, and even if they weren't, the tests aren't really related to real-world performance.