Author: Slater Wold
Date: 18:37:11 04/22/02
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On April 22, 2002 at 20:10:51, Kevin Strickland wrote: >On April 22, 2002 at 19:55:05, K. Burcham wrote: > >>On April 22, 2002 at 16:53:52, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>> >>>http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PCIATA100&sourceid=00394485245456307577 >>> >>>Does striping speed up the hard disk enough to be worth the trouble? >> >>(I assume you know there is not actually a RPM increase). >>Roy, i tried the Promise raid card with two 20 gig seagate 7200 ide >>drives. this would be a raid 0 stripe setup, if i remember correctly. >>when first setting this up, the operating system will see one 40 gig >>hard drive. then you just format the 40 gigs, and load windows. >>my understanding is that when using the raid setup, software will >>read-write to both hard drives at same time. there is not a 2x speedup. >>but there is some speedup, in my case it was very little. the boot >>process is more complicated with this raid card. i played with >>this for awhile, and then took it back out. i did not like the boot up >>with raid card. with chess software, it seems cache, ram and mhz >>are important. >> >>13 rules for having the strongest chess program system are: >>1. best ram >>2. maximum mhz (amd for now) >>3. one single 7200 hard drive (for now) >>4. clean/lean operating system (get all that crap off your system) >>5. learn your software, (test different settings)(test, test, test) >>6. know your hardware (touch it, talk to it, keep her looking good) >>7. stay sober (for important games) >>8. read this forum daily >>9. believe only 60% of what you read >>10. eat healthy >>11. say your prayers >>12. shower daily >>13. question everything >>kburcham > >Actually most people went out and bought new motherboards when ATA 66/100 came >out. I have two Maxtor 60 gig drives and I noticed _no_ different when putting >them on ATA 100. To test I used a normal ATA 33 slot on my motherboard, and an >ATA 100 card. Selected a 700 meg database to decompress. Both took exactly 41 >seconds to extract. There was no difference. This test was under Windows 2000. > >Now I have a motherboard that can use ATA 133 and a hard drive that can match >it. I should try it again but I assume the results will be the same. > >If a drive is 7200 prm it is just that. Nothing can really boost performance. I posted here a while back, I went to 10k SCSI drives, and EGTB access speed up about 14% and eval speeded up about 8%. 7200 IDE is crap. ATA100 or not.
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