08-10-2005, 02:55 AM
Pete,Aug 9 2005, 07:01 PM Wrote:Thanks for the heads up. I only wish I knew what was going on here.
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Throughput is only one factor in performance of drives. Also the sorage subsystem is not the most important factor in loading of levels and such. There is more than raw transfer going on. There are memory accesses, decompression of compressed files, etc...
This follows true in this review of a 4GB RAM drive:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc...i=2480&p=8
Yes there is an improvement, throughput is slightly higher than a RAID 0 setup (130-150 MB/sec) but access times are reduced by more than an order of magnitude. That resulted in some significant gains, but people were expecting 50+% reductions in loading times but only got about 20% or so on average.
THe bottom line is that there are other factors involved in loading up games and programs than raw throughput. Access time is important, and factors not related to the storage subsystem are important.
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And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.