Two things:

Does SPi write to the HDD real-time, in the last iteration or after finishing?
Do CW/CDT help with the prefetch buffers in both the CPU and HDD?

Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
KTE, was there a lot of fluctuation between the 3 runs you did for each technique?
Differences between the 3 runs were in milliseconds not seconds. Each of those times were very difficult to get at those clocks/timings with that setup. A typical fully tweaked run will get you 10m 22.9s without those extra methods, repetitively, no matter how hard you bang your head.

The first run I did, something was wrong with Maxmem flag not working in boot.ini (that would give a CopyWaza 8M time of 10m 25s) so I reinstalled XP Pro SP2 32-bit + all updates. Then just ported over many of the files I needed on that install. I went into Start > Run> msconfig and chose to load the "minimum services/drivers/processes" option (which gives you problems later when restarting them, beware).
several people seemed to have a lot of problems to reproduce their results.
I'll do some re-tests a little later just to clarify if those results are repeatable and to what extent on that setup. Not sure how long that PC will be there before being disassembled. 5 of each this next time around. I'll test that later on with 32M too (bloody fire haah, 50 minutes x30 of waiting )
talking about this, has anybody heard back from elmor yet?
Nope. But I would've done the same right thing in his position.

Elmor, (I forgot your name, Robert?) please give us more information here for everyones benefit. And on behalf of myself and others, thank you for defending what you knew and experienced. I don't like weasels or those not man enough to admit what they factually experienced.

Admin has laid down the rule of no ad hominems and kiddy crap, so I believe he will stick to admonishing that in this thread (unlike what happened in the previous).