Anomalous Speed Check Numbers?

By Colonel ONeill | January 2nd, 2009 | 1:32 am

Tested on XP SP3
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.10GHz
1GB of DDR2 RAM

384 MB Memory Cache
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Direct access speed: 17.00 MB/s
Cache enabled access speed: 844.89 MB/s
Ratio: 49.70

Tested on 2000 SP5
Intel Coppermine 800MHz
320MB of PC133/100 RAM

64 MB Memory Cache
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Direct access speed: 3.45 MB/s
Cache enabled access speed: 14.08 MB/s
Ratio: 4.08

One Response to “Anomalous Speed Check Numbers?”

  1. Ilya Elenik
    Jan 07, 2009

    That is normal results for memory cache. Since files content placed in memory and read very fast, most time takes file open operation (checking security attributes and establishing file handles) So cache enabled access speed can vary depending from amount of system memory and hard disk speed.



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