I want to make it clear, I do not diss the RAID controllers with cache, or the very real performance boost it brings, but i question the point of things when the owners of these cards start to do things like opening 100's of instances of the same program and timing it.
I agree with Computurd, for a PCmark Vantage HDD score to be valid in my book, it has to be bootable, and not just be artificially boosted by running purely in cache, like most normal loads never would (they could run partially, or mostly, but few loads would run purely in cache).

Like others noticed, in the quote from last page where i note the 300+ FF instances loading running in cache, i actually suggested a way to possibly get better results from making it multi-threaded by running many batch-files in parallell. And seriously, i'd like to know if it makes an impact on QD.


Mike, the ca 6K points you have left to harvest, do some come from L2N or other means of extreme cooling you currently don't have hooked up?


EDIT: Nice pics steve, i wait in anticipation to see how it evolves