interesting proggie for maxtor hdd owners

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:49 pm

this proggie apparently uses sysem mem to set up an additional cache and some of the folks at AT are reporting significant speed up - it's a 60 day beta so ymmv

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview ... id=1148986

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:14 pm

VERY interesting. I have 160 Maxtors in both my workstation and server. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Here's the direct linky: http://www.maxboostbeta.com/

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:27 am

not sure what this means but here are the numbers after and install and doing some surfing, aquamark and 3dmark
seq read 0.98
seq write 2.20
rand rd 13.19
rand wrt 6.35

this is a 60 gig maxtor 30/30 partitions 7200 8 mb 0n a nforce 2/barton @ 2100 1 gb ram

Jen · Post by **Jen** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:30 am

thank you for the information

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 2:22 pm

Well it didn't do anything for me, and it crashed a couple of times while turning it off & on for benching, so I uninstalled it.

Seems to work for some people and not others. I suspect mileage varies depending on your controller and how much cache you have in the drive. Those with 2Mb drive caches are more likely to see improvement than those with 8Mb (my drives are all 8Mb).

And you have to be a bit concerned about having 32Mb of you HDD data in a software cache that might crash or otherwise corrupt the data.

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Sun Sep 28, 2003 2:55 pm

I didnt see much performance gain either. lso, every time I booted up it turned my lovely wallpaper in ugly red X's.