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Performance Results
No surprises here, the Rocket Drive's performance was incredible.
It was essentially off the scale on the testing software. I did
not happen to get the same results as Cenatek, but if you do any
kind of graphic design, video editing. I would highly suggest you
run out and get one of these cards. I generated a round gradient
of 10000x10000 pixels in photoshop, and these are the results with
only giving photoshop 133meg of system memory
Photoshop w/ ATA 133 7200 RPM
Swap |
| Generate Image in memory |
101 seconds |
| Show Image on screen |
11 seconds |
| Total |
112 seconds |
Photoshop w/ Rocket Drive Swap |
| Generate Image in Memory |
39 Seconds |
| Show Image on Screen |
2 seconds |
| Total |
41 Seconds |
As you can see the total Time is much faster with the rocket drive.
Since the image was about 230 meg, and Photoshop used about 1/2
the memory in the system, the larger images you work with the better
performance via the Rocket Drive.
I did a couple tests using SiSoft Hard Drive Benchmark and HD Tach.
The numbers speak for themselves. Notice that overhead CPU usage
on the Rocket Drive is about 1% less than the Hard Drive. Also you
will notice that seek time is <.1ms (dang fast). Another advantage
of the Rocket Drive, is that no matter where the data is stored,
it takes the same around of time to access, compared to the hard
drive that gets slower the further out on the platter.
The SiSoft Benchmark pretty much shows that the Rocket Drive Smokes
a U160 SCSI 15K RPM drive
Another great feature of the Rocket Drive, is being
able to install a game onto it. My system is by no means a monster.
Just a dual 800. It's served me well, but loading games can take
some time, even with an ATA 100 7200RPM drive. So I tested it out
on battlefield 1942. I loaded the 'Battle of the Bulge' map in single
player, loading off the hard drive took about 46 seconds. I then
installed the game to the Rocket Drive. I was amazed at the load
time.. 26 seconds!. I did not do any testing in multi player
games, as I could not get any firm results due to replicating network
usage, but from experience playing, it allows me to join games as
one of the first four or five people into a server.
Also with DirectX games, you might get a little bit
of a performance increase by putting the OS swap file on the Rocket
Drive. Since DirectX tends to need virtual memory for one reason
or another, it should help loading sounds etc.
Over all this can improve your gaming, give you a
leg up by getting to spawn points more quickly, and getting the
vehicles you want. This card is more taylor made for graphics/video/database
work, but it sure can improve your gaming also. For anyone who does
some kind of graphics or video work, and games. this card is for
you.
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