+67% Performance for Maxtor HDD - Episode 2

[thegreypilgrim]

Look what I found : http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxboost/index.cfm.

No 60 days limit anymore !!!

I retried this stuff and guess what...
this is still impressive : +35 in WinBench Business and +67% in High End. My old 10Gb Maxtor HDD just came back to life (again) !!

Share your results, guys !

 

[1966]

Does it support hyperthreading this time ?



btw bad link.

 

[thegreypilgrim]

Don't know. Have a TBird and a Barton. I didn't looked at it.

 

[thegreypilgrim]

I checked and "no hyperthreading" and "no RAID". Even if wonder who is gonna need the kind of boost in perf on a RAID system ???

 

[1966]

I guess nobody with a 800fsb P4 will use it then.

 

[thegreypilgrim]

Agreed. Nobody is gonna shut down Hyperthrading.
But still, for all AMD CPU owner (like me ;-) ) and may be for more legacy PC.

 

[Ronstang]

I can't find the file you speak of so I have no opinion yet.

 

[1966]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
I can't find the file you speak of so I have no opinion yet.

I could not find it either,the link he supplied doesnt work.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Fixed Linky

Im going to download and try it... cant hurt right?

CrackRabbit

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

The MaxBoost driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive

Um, windows doesn't do this already? That sure sucks.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

The MaxBoost driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive

Um, windows doesn't do this already? That sure sucks.

Windows does have its own disk caching scheme, but I have no idea what Maxtor does that's different.

 

[saltedeggman]

it said it will expire on June 30th

.......6 months of usage, pretty good

 

[saltedeggman]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

The MaxBoost driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive

Um, windows doesn't do this already? That sure sucks.

Windows does have its own disk caching scheme, but I have no idea what Maxtor does that's different.

they said their implements is much much better than windows.........

 

[thegreypilgrim]

The Link has been corrected sorry about that

 

[thegreypilgrim]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

The MaxBoost driver intelligently caches data in the host system RAM before it is written to and read from the Maxtor disk drive

Um, windows doesn't do this already? That sure sucks.

No offense but your post only shows that you didn't try it. This is a question witch has already been answer here. And the answer is : the Windows caching scheme sucks not this one.

 

[1966]

Dual processors not supported. Hyper-Threading must be disabled

Useless for me and many others then. :disgust:

 

[thegreypilgrim]

Clearly.

Anybody has tried it on a 64 bits processor (Opteron has I couldn't find any Itanium version) ?

 

[Megatomic]

I'll give this a try tomorrow, thanks for the link thegreypilgrim. :beer:

 

[thegreypilgrim]

U're welcome

 

[magomago]

but can u feel the difference or does this just raise synthetic scores?

 

[thegreypilgrim]

I personnaly feel the difference on 3 main points:

First, huge soft like Premiere or Maya or 3DS.

Second, defragmentation software : I can watch DivX WHILE defragging !!!!

Third Multiple Streaming : I installed MaxBoost on a computer who is more a file backup/serving PC than anything else : Transfering one file from or to it is not faster but I try to transfer multiple file at the same time, it's really quicker.

 

[thegreypilgrim]

This stuff is crazy : I tried to launch 3 Media Player, reading the same DivX and defragging at the same time...

It's working : average on 3 minutes are : 25fps (0 dropped frames) for 2 streams and 24.1 fps for the 3rd one while defragging the same drive!!!!

 

[Dantzig]

Very nice! I'm going to try this. Almost makes me glad that Maxtor currently houses my OS and programs.

 

[yhelothar]

bah my two maxtors are on raid

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

So who's going to hack this so it will work on other drives?