Author: john rice
Date: 20:35:40 07/15/02
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For a single HD, 34k kB/s is outstanding. My older system, with only a single WD ATA100 drive tops out around 20k k/Bs. One tip for better benchmark results with Sandra is to defrag your HD immediatly before you run the test. On July 15, 2002 at 21:44:27, Slater Wold wrote: >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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