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Originally Posted by Cecil
The first image is short stroked to 120Gb. The normal bench lost some speed on the 1tb run, but the file bench is much improved.
All you have to do is set up RAID with less then full size to short stroke.
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Random tests will perform better . The newer large mechanical drives REALLY benefit from sustained traffic. The big difference is small file size transfers.
Any drive can be tuned for a test though.
I think HC is talking about a specific size. Instead of partitioning a drive smaller (which is enough in my limited experience) but physically tell the motherboard that the drive is only so large. While short stroking a partition on a mechanical drive improves performance. Short stroking the entire drive in theory reduces the overhead on the LBA controller also. Assuming that is what HC is talking about.
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Last edited by Neuromancer; 09-27-2010 at 11:03 PM.
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