|
Business Disk WinMark
99
| |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| Business Disk
WinMarks |
4890.0 |
4806.7 |
As expected, IDE Block Mode improved the performance of the hard disk in
the Business Disk WinMark 99 tests. However, the difference is only 83.3
WinMarks or approx. 1.7% over the disabled mode. That's rather
insignificant although the results were consistent. One would have
expected a performance boost of several orders in magnitude, right? After all,
it appears that up to 128X more data can be transferred per interrupt with this feature
than without.
High-End Disk WinMark
99
| |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| High-End Disk
WinMarks |
13000 |
13000 |
In the high-end disk tests, both the enabled and disabled modes scored
equally well. So, it begs the question, why doesn't IDE Block Mode
improve performance here?
WinBench 99 Disk Tests
(Details)
| |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| AVS/Express 3.4 |
9176.7 |
9220.0 |
| FrontPage
98 |
55833.3 |
55666.7 |
| MicroStation
SE |
15033.3 |
15066.7 |
| Photoshop
4.0 |
6673.3 |
6686.7 |
| Premiere
4.2 |
12400.0 |
12400.0 |
| Sound
Forge 4.0 |
19900.0 |
20066.7 |
| Visual
C++ 5.0 |
15200.0 |
15200.0 |
Although the results looked mixed with the Disabled mode having the
upper hand in most cases, both modes actually scored about the same.
With minor deviations aside, of course. Surprising, isn't it? Now, let's
check out a real world test.
Winstone 99
| |
Enabled |
Disabled |
| Winstone Units |
24.7 |
24.6 |
In this real world benchmark of office applications, the IDE Block Mode
feature barely improved the performance of the whole system. It only
registered an increase of 0.1 Winstone unit which is about 0.4% faster
than the disabled mode.
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