The Dev has spoken! Where to put WoW folder! Acard wins!

[Sam DeathWalker]

From the above linked storagereview benchmarks:

World of Warcraft Performance
A capture of a role-playing game that issues disk accesses when switching continents/dungeons as well as when loading new textures into RAM on the fly.

World of Warcraft Performance


Rank Drive Name Model Results in IO/Sec
1 MTRON MSP-SATA7035-64 (64 GB SATA) MSP-SATA7035-064 3333
2 MTRON MSD-SATA3035-064 (64 GB SATA) MSD-SATA3035-64 3030
3 Fujitsu MAU (147 GB Ultra320 SCSI) MAU3147NP 885
4 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS (300 GB SATA) WD3000GLFS 840
5 Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 Desktop Mode (147 GB Ultra320 SCSI) ST3146754LW 833
6 Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000BLFS (300 GB SATA) WD3000BLFS 833
7 Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 with NCQ (1000 GB SATA) HTE721010SLA330 806
8 Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 Server Mode (147 GB SAS) ST3146854SS 787


You can see, according the them, wow is 4X faster on the Mtron SSD vs. a Veloraptor.

Also they indicate that textures ARE loaded on the fly.

Interestingly the 36G raptors are way worse then the 300G raptors ... hum ... How can you possibly umm duplicate the same test anyways. Wont you always run into different characters?

The fastest Raptor / VeloRaptor has 16M cache

[Tonuss]

Interestingly the 36G raptors are way worse then the 300G raptors ... hum ... How can you possibly umm duplicate the same test anyways. Wont you always run into different characters?

They're measuring I/O accesses per second. As long as you have enough data to push the interface to its limit, it doesn't really matter.

The fastest Raptor / VeloRaptor has 16M cache

Yeah, there seem to be a few factors to consider. Areal density, spindle speed, cache size, all of the usual suspects. The 'enterprise class' drives might be the best option for someone looking for the best performance while still maintaining a decent dollar/GB.

[ciscokid454]

I don't know the best place to post this for everyone to read, but it's worthwhile, considering all the talk about ssd's, and other storage mediums besides HDD's.
I'm not trying to start flaming or saying anything is better or worse than anything else, it's just a good read about ssd's.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=1
Enjoy

[Sam DeathWalker]

Sure looks like these SSD drives are not ready for prime time yet. Wait and See might be the move .... Or at least wait until Windows 7 is on your computer.

Im hooking up 2 of the 36G raptors in raid0 tonight, Ill have a bit of a report later.

[weeep]

When you go to Org or some heavy populater area does the hard drive churn constantly or not?

No, it doesn't. I know how the slowdowns caused by HDD activity look like, I multiboxed for some time with 4Gb RAM. After upgrading to 8Gb everything is smooth.
I'm also using windows7 and windows 2008, the system file caching algorithms there seem to be greatly improved over Vista and certainly WinXP. I almost always have ~2Gb RAM that is used as system cache, so probably it is working really good.

[Oswyn]

Either get over your issues you have with Sam or address them in private. No need for half of the comments you made in this thread.

[Simulacra]

this thread is why I hardly ever come here anymore

[Sam DeathWalker]

Ya but there is still good solid infos to be gotten from it ....

[Catamer]

this thread is noting more than Sam selling some disk drives on ebay.

[Redbeard]

Either get over your issues you have with Sam or address them in private. No need for half of the comments you made in this thread.

I have to agree. I dont know Sam, nor do I know any of you really, though many of you seem to have a "past" with him and I assume hes been around the boxing scene a long time. Its amazing how, with as much flack as the guy gets anytime he posts ANYTHING, that he still posts here.

At any rate, looking forward to more data being added to the thread,

Thanks.