HDTach 3.0.4.0
HD Tach will test the sequential read, random access and interface burst speeds of your attached storage device (hard drive, flash drive, removable drive, etc). All drive technologies such as SCSI, IDE/ATA, 1394, USB, SATA and RAID are supported. Test results from HD Tach can be used to confirm manufacturer specs, analyze your system for proper performance, and compare your performance with others. HD Tach is very easy to use, quick, and presents data in easy to read graphs, including the ability to compare two storage devices on screen at the same time for easy analysis.
We’ve learned burst tests are not conclusive with HDTach, and are only included for your information.
HDTach is dated in it’s sequential transfer speed tests. While it does perform a sequential read and write, those happen in the form of very small single-threaded IO’s. Fusion’s driver handles these much more gracefully than SandForce controller devices, and this carries over to all SandForce devices – even 8 of them behind a behemoth VCA controller.
All PCIe SSD’s have no issue yielding 0.0 ms access times.
This drive is so fast, that
This drive is so fast, that it can actually change the way programmers approach problems. With a disk speed a sizable fraction of RAM, I/O stops being a bottleneck. The big users of this will probably be High Performance clusters, where 4 CPU servers (each with 8+ cores) exist. The benefit of This incredibly fast storage will do wonders for these systems.
I’m kinda guessing that CPUs will be the bottleneck for the server crowd, and tthis’ll push CPU development that much further. (Hey, I can hope!)
I really hope developers
I really hope developers won’t stop optimizing their code. Data access can’t ever be fast enough. Wherever you’re running huge databases with tons of users, you’ll be happy for every single timesaving tick.
I think the biggest
I think the biggest bottleneck for the foreseeable future is still network transfer speeds, which also puts a serious onus on programmers to optimize code as far as disk reads/writes, optimizing disk reads/writes to fill out TCP packets as much as possible and not have extraneous information sent over networks is still going to be the key to successful communication with servers. At least until new standards for network communication actually come into play.
Thank you for your effort on
Thank you for your effort on making this review , But I seriously don’t see the point , Did you really think we ( the readers ) can afford such thing ? the item you reviewed is listed at 11,200$ , with this kind of money ill have all the high end pcs for the next minimum 15 years ! Minus this SSD.