Meausuring QD in win7

[One_Hertz]

A few points to consider:

I have never seen a game use more than 200MB/s in raw read bandwidth using a few different tracers, even though my setup can do 800+

FusionIO shows similar performance to one X25-M in respect to loading games, while being loads faster in benchmarks (lowfat)

The new SF-1500 controllers, which are faster than X25-M in benchmarks, show identical performance to X25-M in game loading (anandtech)

X25-E, which is a lot faster than X25-M in a lot of benchmarks, shows identical loadings times to X25-M (anand).

Raid-0 does not improve game loading times (independent testing from loads of people on this forum)

Acard is noticeably faster at loading games than all current SSDs due to its lower access times. (any review)

Different RAID controllers (between the good ones anyway) hardly have any impact on game loading times (SteveRO)

New gen SSDs can not improve low queue performance until the Flash memory itself gets faster in terms of access times. They can keep making controllers better, but access times will still be limiting things.

If you look at the big picture, all current top end SSD setups are pretty close to one another in terms of loading times. I don't see this changing until either game coders optimize their games for SSDs or access times are decreased.