"This software will increase your drive performance by 60%" - Maxtor

Gnerma · Dec 20, 2003

And its available now. I'd like some numbers and performance impressions from anybody who tries it.

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Miknow · Dec 20, 2003

hmmm gotta try it

Jognt · Dec 20, 2003

i wonder... hmm, ill try it and let you know

any proggies out there that can check my HDD's speed?

Gnerma · Dec 20, 2003

Originally posted by Jognt
any proggies out there that can check my HDD's speed?

Well there are many hard drive benchmarking apps. Sandra and ATTO are a couple. Although I imagine this software will throw benchmarks off. I think some subjective and/or unconventional performance impressions would be best.

Such as ime it takes to load photoshop 8, defragmentation speed, drive scans like antivirus or Ad-aware/spybot, or large writes like when copying a big set of files.

But post it all!

Gnerma · Dec 21, 2003

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38165

I have read no glowing reports yet. Also, it does not work with the Nforce2 software IDE drivers or hyperthreading, or RAID....

PYROMANIAC · Dec 21, 2003

Jognt said:
any proggies out there that can check my HDD's speed?

you might also want to search for a program called "hd tach"

Como · Dec 21, 2003

I've got 2 80 GB maxtor harddrives that arent being used at the moment. (well one is in a small experiment i'm trying wiht XP and a 75 MHZ computer, and yes, it not only installed but it worked...) but i could format it without caring a bit. If you guys tell me what to do w/ them i'd run a test, but i dont have a BIOS that will support a harddrive larger than 33 GB at the moment... (although XP pro seems to not care and runs my 80 as a 74 anyway, which owuld be the Gb vs GB thing...)

TheTick · Jan 11, 2004

I only have a 12 GB drive for now, but I am downloading the program, and ill run some tests.

Hookj5 · Jan 12, 2004

The web site says that if you get the driver update from Nvidia, you can use it with Nforce 2 chipset. Gonna try it and let you know. Need to bench b4 and then after.

lanman31337 · Jan 16, 2004

The program is a memory hog, it uses about 15 percent of my memory.

Arkaine23 · Jan 16, 2004

Looks like I need that nvidia update then, haven't noticed anything running it with the last nvidia drivers I installed from months ago...

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