DiamondMax 10: What does 16 MB Cache and the New Native Command Queuing do? - Test Setup and Sandra and Sysmark Benchmarks

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Processor: Intel Pentium 4 550 (3.4Ghz)

Motherboard: Asus P5AD2 Premium, Intel 925X Chipset
Intel 6.01 Chipset Driver

Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5900 PCI-e 128MB
nVidia Forceware 61.77

Memory: 1024MB Corsair VS DDR2

Hard Disks: 74GB Western Digital Raptor, 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10

Operating System: Windows XP
Service Pack 1
DirectX 9.0b

Benchmarks used: SiSoft Sandra SP2b File System Benchmark
Sysmark 2004
HDTach 3.0
DiskBench 2.3
FarCry Demo

Each hard disk had the operating system, drivers, and software installed onto a freshly formatted hard disk. Each of the benchmarks was run five times with the average fair score taken as the result.

Benchmark Results

SiSoft Sandra 2004 File System Benchmark

We decided to run Sandra 2004. While Sandra's results might not be 100% accurate for real world performance they give a fair idea of transfer rates.

The almost 10 mb/sec advantage of the Raptor (and almost a fifth more speed) should be read together with other results on this page. The transfer rate is, of course, not the be all and end all of hard disk speeds.

Sysmark 2004

Sysmark 2004 runs through a number of various tests. Although it tests overall PC performance, it does access the hard disk a fair bit.

Next: Maxtor, Raptor and HD Tach 3 Benchmarks >>
 

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