02-02-2018 12:17 PM - last edited on 03-06-2024 08:08 PM by ROGBot
02-07-2018 08:01 PM
Brighttail wrote:
It is really sad that the 4k numbers don't benefit from 8 m.2 drives. 😞
02-08-2018 11:42 AM
CharlieH wrote:
Given they are the most important for most users it is sad. But for some usages those other numbers mean a huge difference. When I say users I mean the types of things they do with the rig. Also some other interesting facts on the Intel 900p. You never need to factory reset the drive ever. Most NVMe drives after they start getting filled they slow down the 900Ps don't. But most importantly is the IOPs which aren't shown in DiskMark. I haven't found a good tool to show those but I saw one in a video on the AMD platform that was a speedometer and the IOPs where crazy high on a RAID 0 Hyper x16 with 4 drives. I know my builds with unit and integration tests of a huge Visual Studio solution with 80+ projects takes about 6:40 minutes. The fastest reported from others on this project and there are many folks is around 11+ minutes. So for me it is a huge difference. Most folks are running 20+ minutes.
BTW I think the issue is partly related to spanning 2 controllers, RAID itself causes slowness on 4K.
IMHO most users should stick with a single drive no RAID.
Notice my boot drive is a single Samsung 960 pro.
One last thing the faster you OC the faster those numbers get even the 4K one. This is because the 3 VMD controllers are on the CPU.
02-09-2018 03:00 AM
ratzofftoya wrote:
Thanks, Charlie. Do you stick that 960 Pro on the DIMM.2, or just in the m.2 slot under the armor?
02-08-2018 12:06 PM
CharlieH wrote:
Given they are the most important for most users it is sad. But for some usages those other numbers mean a huge difference. When I say users I mean the types of things they do with the rig. Also some other interesting facts on the Intel 900p. You never need to factory reset the drive ever. Most NVMe drives after they start getting filled they slow down the 900Ps don't. But most importantly is the IOPs which aren't shown in DiskMark. I haven't found a good tool to show those but I saw one in a video on the AMD platform that was a speedometer and the IOPs where crazy high on a RAID 0 Hyper x16 with 4 drives. I know my builds with unit and integration tests of a huge Visual Studio solution with 80+ projects takes about 6:40 minutes. The fastest reported from others on this project and there are many folks is around 11+ minutes. So for me it is a huge difference. Most folks are running 20+ minutes.
BTW I think the issue is partly related to spanning 2 controllers, RAID itself causes slowness on 4K.
IMHO most users should stick with a single drive no RAID.
Notice my boot drive is a single Samsung 960 pro.
One last thing the faster you OC the faster those numbers get even the 4K one. This is because the 3 VMD controllers are on the CPU.
02-09-2018 03:40 AM
Protocol wrote:
Awesome information here.
Mother of God at those sequential rates though - truly impressive!
1080 Ti's (EK blocks) in SLi and a Sound Blaster ZxR prevent me from "becoming the ultimate storage IO bad-ass" like youself ; )
09-14-2018 05:40 AM