Author: Slater Wold
Date: 18:44:27 07/15/02
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Wow! 48,000kB/s?! Not even the 15k RPM drives get that kinda of bandwidth. Using NTFS FS under Windows 2000 AS I got 34k kB/s using Sandra 2002.6.8.97. On July 15, 2002 at 14:05:26, john rice wrote: >I use two Maxtor 40Gig ATA133 drives in a Raid 0 configuration and get >outstanding performance with it. Slater, if you get a chance try running the Si >Soft Sandra 2002 (freeware) hard drive bench mark with your scsi drive. I'm >courious if it is faster than my Raid set-up. My average benchmark score is >48,000kB/s. > >On July 15, 2002 at 11:44:01, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On July 15, 2002 at 10:59:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On July 15, 2002 at 08:57:13, Gordon Rattray wrote: >>> >>>>I currently use Fritz, etc. to analyse a lot of endgame positions. During the >>>>search there is often a large amount of tablebase hits (I'm currently using all >>>>5 man TBs with a 32Mb TB cache). It regularly seems that the disk access speed >>>>is more of a bottleneck than the processor. >>>> >>>>Should I consider using a faster disk (I'm currently using a 7200rpm IDE drive)? >>>> Will it be worth it? Should I use SCSI instead of IDE? >>>> >>>>thanks in advance >>>> >>>>Gordon >>> >>> >>>SCSI is definitely better. 10K and 15K drives are also definitely >>>faster... The probes are I/O intensive, so anything you can do to >>>reduce I/O costs will help the engine. This includes a larger Cache >>>also, of course. >> >>I went from a WD 7200 RPM IDE drive to a Fuji 10K SCSI drive, and saw consistant >>15-20 percent gains in the search of half a dozen engines.
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