First IOXTREME Review

[Computurd]

@ audienceofone....It seems to me that the problem is not the SSD, it’s the controller interface, it’s the controller drivers, it’s the lack of optimised quad core processing, it’s the OS, and it’s the software. In other words until these issues are resolved is it justifiable to spend huge sums of money to get very little return because nothing else is optimised to take advantage of it?

I could not agree more. there is definitely a point of diminishing returns when it comes to this, as any, area of storage. some people just do it because they are storage junkies

SteveRo...Has anyone ever figured out how to boot from a dynamic disk?

not that i am aware of. the OS has to initialize in order to initialize the array. at least that is my understanding. those are very interesting results with that nested array, however, that dynamic disk is spectacular in its IOPS...very neat stuff i may have to play with that soon for fun. interesting results!

@Griff805...Computurd- I'd like to see some of those "instantaneous" Crysis level loads and other games. I'd really like to see how you're computer loads "everything" instantaneously.

well i may be overstating a tad, i do not wish to leave you with the impression of instantaneous loads, that is impossible there may be milliseconds involved there of course... seriously though, it is very fast, and i may come off as brash about how fast it is. but it is not just the storage system that enables these types of things, you also have to have cpu gpu and ram etc, optimized OS, etc etc. it is much like napalms system, a total approach that allows him to load 200 apps in 20 seconds or maybe more now im not sure, that dude only gets faster. but your tone towards me with that sounds reminiscent of peoples tone with napalm.

speaking of tones...

Computurd - I like how you haven't posted your result.

It pleases you that my wifes birthday was yesterday, and her party is today? that her and the children are demanding my time for this? thank you for the sentiment and your approval of my loving family.
~~~~~~your smart ass tone is not appreciated. i have no qualms showing my benchmarks and you know that. unfortunately i have a life as well~~~~

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stevero's posting with his Areca 1231ML-2G/Acard 9010 8xR0
1 manager 1 worker 1 disk queue depth 64.... 4kb random
his iops were 54017....mine:


at the same setting my 4k sequential is (above i posted one with wrong queue i think)


seeing as how 69 percent of reads during gaming etc are sequential i think that is very telling^^^^at such a low block size. well the lowest block size actually. it only gets faster from there.

as to the anandtech my results are this:


there are serious disparitys with this benchmark, however i do reach higher iops than the acards on the 1231. not sure what that means, as one hertz, my dear friend, has stated that stevero is faster, even though he scored lower iops than he did. so does that mean lower iops is better? i dont get it. for some reason i cannot view the profile of this profile that was made by one hertz, so i am not sure of exactly what is going on here. this is a benchmark that is atttempting to match anandtechs, but i think we need work on it. that is all i have time for,. i am sure that we will have much to discuss after the party!!