Napalm always reminds me that you have to think on a system level and not at a subsystem level.

Will I ever open 300 applications in real life? Na, but it was mildly amusing to try it out.

For me it is interesting to see how insanely fast PC's are in a way that has some kind of perspective, which can easily be lost when dealing purely with benchmark figures.....I think what I try to say is that sometimes it is hard to appreciate how fast something is if you only go by benchmarks.

As for the results.......

Napalm can open 300 ff in 15 seconds with 4 ssd's in raid 0 using a 1231.

With a single SSD I can open 300 ff in 29 seconds.

Currently I use the ASUS U3S6, which bottlenecks my SSD performance and has no cache to compensate. Whilst my pc performed quite well in this task it was clear that my single SSD was the bottleneck as the CPU and RAM did not max out.

Later I will try to run a "multi-thread" batch setup and will monitor the QD when I run it.