dh41400
can't see u'r point with testing a short-stroked HDD vs a partitioned non short-stroked one through IOMeter,
there obviously shouldn't be any difference at all,
the HDD works the same as when it short-stroked to 30GB or u'r checking the last 30GB in it through IOMeter,
there is no difference at all at arm movement, this test is definitely superfluous.
Aside from HEAVY server usage...why would a home/single user ever care to see queue lengths on IO meter greater than say 24 or 32?
lol, because it's interesting .

now for the main reason for this post,
didn't anyone notice the huge difference in 512B IO's from anvil 4*x-25v 183,000 on the ICH10R to this G2&G1 mutation?
why this 250$ dedicated HBA is getting choked at 75,000 IOps while the onboard ICH10R breath's smoothly till 245 KIOPs at 512B and even smashes it at 4K with ease at 110 KIOPs .