PCMark05: Revodrive 3 X2 Performance

[I.M.O.G.]

For those interested, here are the quick tests on the Revo performance.

This one is for comparison, the Areca 1882IX with 3x Raid0 Maxiops:


These are the revo3 x2 480GB:

[pro]

yeah good idea, with the maxiops I also had to secure erase it before the performance was nice,

i never found the revodrive good for much more than harddrive startup, but its perfect for that

[I.M.O.G.]

Thanks for chiming in - seems almost everyone with experience hasn't gotten the revo running real quick.

I let someone borrow my 100GB revo a while back, in hopes they could do something right that I was missing... They found the same I did.

I think there is a trick to making it scream in general usage. Unless Sweet's score wasn't repeatable, and just a one time exceptional score - I doubt that is the case though. I've never seen general usage bug high. Hybridchiller had used alternative drivers for the old revo he was on, which I tried as well, but it had no advantage on my rig. He gave me some pointers, but everything I tried didn't help to reproduce a good gen usage.

I'm going to play around with different installs and pagefile settings.

[pro]

well theres always things we havn't thought of yet, so probably just one of the endless tweaks possible in pcm05

[I.M.O.G.]

I agree, I think it might be something however that no one really knows what it takes - just on the right OS config, it screams. I had talked a lot with Sweet about his result before - he had multiple storage drives for his submission, so I had wanted to make sure the Revo was the one used on gen usage. I think hybridchiller made a solid effort to help me get the same sort of results too, but nothing he suggested actually worked on my setup. There's an X factor somewhere methinks. Just gotta find it.