Recent content by smkout

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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    Thanks for that insight mtnd3vil! I'm going to go ahead and get Windows 7. Was going to be getting it fairly soon anyway, so this is another reason to do sooner rather than latter.
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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    Thanks for the suggestion Tweakboy. Downloaded it, and it is interesting, but unless I'm mistaken Winbootinfo only provides information on the boot up. I'm really trying to find my queue depth when I'm saving/opening files on this autosprink program. Interesting that it has my boot time @ 191.1...
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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    yeah, I dunno about the disabling the protection, would be a conciderable savings but the support, etc is a large part of the yearly lease of the program ($3,600):o. I dunno if they will maybe change as USB 3.0 becomes more the norm. I can't imagine the actual reading from the doggle being such...
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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    Thank you again for the response Emulex. I was hoping that there was a way of viewing a column or such that would just state the queue depth, but I guess I will have to investage the help section (and Google) of perfmon a bit. Sure to find lots of items I never knew about along the way. The CAD...
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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    Thank you Emulex for the reply. So by the sounds of it you been able to observe queue depth in perfom. Can you please let me know where/how, as I am just getting familar with it? Thank you again!
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    How to tell drive queue depth?

    Dear forum members, I was wondering if there is a way to deterimine 'I/O drive queue depth' in Windows Vista? Such as in task manager or such. The question is arising from reading the article about the OCZ IBIS drive, where the verdict was that unless your are dealing with a queue depth of 5 or...