Yapt v0.3
Yapt (yet another performance test) is a benchmark recommended by a pair of drive manufacturers and was incredibly difficult to locate as it hasn’t been updated or used in quite some time. That doesn’t make it irrelevant by any means though, as the benchmark is quite useful. It creates a test file of about 100 MB in size and runs both random and sequential read and write tests with it while changing the data I/O size in the process. The results are a good look at overall drive performance.
Yapt uses much larger transfer blocks, and is multithreaded to boot. Once the obscure underdog of our test suite, we’re glad we kept it around, as it’s proven to be one of the best true throughput tests for higher performance SSD’s. While the RevoDrive 3 X2 was able to get the jump on the competition, here we see it get leapfrogged by its younger brother.
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.