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Hard disk Benchmarking

Imitation Gruel

Wed Feb 13 14:12:40 2002

I think that hard drive benchmarks should include 3D games so we can see what impact faster drives (seek, transfer) have on gaming.

Imagine:
  Fastest 5400rpm IDE
  Fastest 7200rpm IDE
  Fastest 10000rpm SCSI
  Fastest 15000rpm SCSI

All else equal in system.

What impact would faster drives have?

Who's with me on this?

Imitation Gruel

Wed Feb 13 14:22:02 2002

^
AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Feb 13 14:52:23 2002

I think that hard drive benchmarks should include 3D games so we can see what impact faster drives (seek, transfer) have on gaming.

Ideally, they'd have no impact. :)

HitScan

Wed Feb 13 15:11:19 2002

It's all about level load time. With my ATA 100s I get in a map a damn sight quicker than I would on my old ATA 33 drive. So, hardware raid 0 with 15K SCSI drives will load the largest levels in no time. Sadly, it will also cost you something like an assload of money.
Imitation Gruel

Wed Feb 13 15:11:22 2002

Ideally, they'd have no impact.

But is everything ideal?

This is why it should be investigated. Just because we can.

DeAthe

Wed Feb 13 21:53:28 2002

You're going to see a better overall system responsiveness with faster drives, however it won't affect game playing too much, generally when a game loads a level it's all straight reads, no random seeking, etc.

my .02 $.

DuffMan

Wed Feb 13 23:36:37 2002

woe is the loss of storagereview.com, now I don't know which hard drives are faster and whatnot.
HitScan

Thu Feb 14 00:04:55 2002

woe is the loss of storagereview.com, now I don't know which hard drives are faster and whatnot.

Did you not hear the good news? StorageReview lives, just sans one personage. Supposedly there's a deal worked out by which they will be able to keep things going. I certainly hope so, it's where I always went looking for drive info before building a new box.