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St Devious
13th June 2009, 04:01
With more and more fast SSD's being released everyday, everyone wonder's if they are worth what they cost.

I'm going to be publishing some reviews regarding HDD's and SSD's among other hardware on my site http://alienbabeltech.com in the future.

I'm looking for ideas for real world benchmarks which would show the difference between these drives.

Some of the video editors might benefit from it, and they must be the ones wondering if SSD's are worth investment.

So suggest me some ideas and how you would like me to test.

Ideas I have right now -

Synthetic benchmarks like HDTach, HDTune, Everest , SANDRA, CrystalDiskMark

Real world tests like file copy benchmarks, game install benchmarks, game level load benchmarks.


What else would you like to see ?

Would combining two AVI files in VirtualDub be a good test ?
slipknot!
16th June 2009, 21:37
copying some trash of very very many very small files ~ 5-6 GB. I think a velociraptor from WD could do it faster
turbojet
16th June 2009, 23:28
h2bench to measure true bandwidth of drive, the other synthetic benchmarks mentioned have overhead which in some cases is unrealistic. muxing avi with vdub on same drive, demux bd on same drive with tsmuxer, +1 on lots of small files on same drive (windows directory?), copy one 4GB+ file on same drive.

2 and 3 drive hardware or vista/win7 (xp software is broken) raid0 benchmarks would also be interesting.
St Devious
16th June 2009, 23:41
copying some trash of very very many very small files ~ 5-6 GB. I think a velociraptor from WD could do it faster

This will be done. This software can do that http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/fctest10.html

h2bench to measure true bandwidth of drive, the other synthetic benchmarks mentioned have overhead which in some cases is unrealistic. muxing avi with vdub on same drive, demux bd on same drive with tsmuxer, +1 on lots of small files on same drive (windows directory?), copy one 4GB+ file on same drive.

2 and 3 drive hardware or vista/win7 (xp software is broken) raid0 benchmarks would also be interesting.

What sized AVI should be joined ? And how much CPU intensive is the muxing of two AVIs or is it completely Disk ?

don't have a BR drive yet, so can't demux BD. 4gb files can be done.