PCMark 2002 Strange Results

[Demont]

Ok I ran PCMark a week or so ago.. I got 4000 something for cpu, 3000 something for ram and 749 i believe for HDD. Then i defragged, ran it again and the hdd score changed to 917. yay. Then i restarted once and did test again and the score was 1369. i was like wow hey a 90-100 % gain just from defraging and restarting, thats cool! Then today i defragged again and ran the test and i got what you see in the attatchment! The reason i took a screen shot is because i cant get that score to post on the madonion site...it has results from the HDD tests but it wont show the full score....it just says N/A. Here is the link:http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=427742
(check the Uncached file read... 297.2 MB/s??) Does anyone know what this is about??

[RedDeathDrinker]

Either you're running striped 1,000,000rpm ATA666 drives, or there's a glitch somewhere:)

[Demont]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
Either you're running striped 1,000,000rpm ATA666 drives, or there's a glitch somewhere:)

Yeah the best part is that im just running a samsung ata100, w/ no raid setup (yet). Has anyone ever seen this "glitch" before?

[---X---]

Personally, I wouldnt trust PCMark for anything, or even Sandra for HDD benchmarks

[Demont]

Originally posted by ---X---
Personally, I wouldnt trust PCMark for anything, or even Sandra for HDD benchmarks

Can you recommend a good way to test your harddrive's performance?

[Gravity Man]

Originally posted by reddeathdrinker
Either you're running striped 1,000,000rpm ATA666 drives, or there's a glitch somewhere:)
That would be a wicked setup ;)

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by Demont


Can you recommend a good way to test your harddrive's performance?

Possibly timing how long it takes to copy a set of large and small files. Figuring out how long it takes to search for a file, too.

That's about the only thing that I can think of that would only rely on the one hdd. Probably not a very good way, though.

Overall, I'd say hdd performance is crap, mainly cause it's such a HUGE bottleneck for everything else you're doing.

[eXtraktor]

PCMark2002 gives me different results everytime i use, i just dont trust the program. Sandra on the other hand as given me stable results for my hard drives.