Originally posted by: soccerballtux
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Hard Drive is the limiting factor on the W7 Performance Score. Any single mechanical HD is limited to 5.9. RAID can achieve a higher number. Above 5.9 the score focuses on random reads and random writes, both of which HDDs are not good at. A single high end SSD will hit around 7.5. RAID SSD will obviously max out the score.
That's silly. That's silly, my storage drive is holding me back then.
Even a high end 15K Cheetah runs around 120 write/130 read range with 5-6ms latency, and < 1MB random reads/writes. The difference compared to a 7200RPM hard drive (100/100) isn't that high on the grand scale of things.
RAID HDs will push it to ~200 read/~200 write range which is obviously significantly faster and is good for another 0.5 points or so.
The newer SSDs have ~270 read, 0.1ms latency, and random read/writes in the 20MB/s or greater range which is good for a full point.
RAID SSD will push the reads to the 450+ range and that's where the score completely maxes out at 7.9.
Originally posted by: mr3manuel
Astrallite what OS are you using?
Going from windows 7 build 7100 - 7600 just a few hours ago took my graphics and desktop performance rating up from 6.1 - 6.9
7201 I believe.