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Windsurf48
12-13-2008, 05:32 AM
Adaptec released new firmware and drivers this week, right after I ran a series of tests which resulted in baseline #14936. I ran new tests with the same hardware and settings using the new drivers and got higher scores, which also happened in other benchmarks.

I uploaded the new test as baseline #14959. Can you delete the previous test so the new one can make it to the Top Ten page?

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7663/performancetest1fo6.jpg
Michael (Passmark)
12-15-2008, 09:53 PM
The older baseline has been removed.
Windsurf48
12-15-2008, 11:22 PM
Thanks. However, the newer baseline either was deleted or blocked, or both. I uploaded it again as BL 14999, but it didn't show up, so it looks as though something is still blocking it.
Michael (Passmark)
12-16-2008, 02:20 AM
Your disk score is too high. There is a max limit on the disk score to stop people cheating with ram disks and other such devices. The limits/methods we use to exclude baselines from the top ten needs a review. However we are not planning on doing anything with it until we release PT7.
Windsurf48
12-17-2008, 05:48 AM
Your disk score is too high. There is a max limit on the disk score to stop people cheating with ram disks and other such devices. The limits/methods we use to exclude baselines from the top ten needs a review. However we are not planning on doing anything with it until we release PT7.

Does that mean Performance Test 7 will be released soon?

I uploaded a 7 Beta test tonight:

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/5159/performancetest7x865663fn6.th.jpg (http://img367.imageshack.us/my.php?image=performancetest7x865663fn6.jpg)

The disk results seem similar to the version 6 results, and so are the results in other benchmarks:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/7600/hdtachvistax646971076ou9.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtachvistax646971076ou9.jpg) http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9521/hdtuneerrorscanxu1.th.jpg (http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hdtuneerrorscanxu1.jpg)

I've never seen an uneqivocable change in performance after a disk controller firmware update, so the 15-25% increase with the 16343 Adaptec firmware was a big surprise. It is present in 32-bit and 64-bit XP and 64-bit Vista, and there were no hardware changes, no software changes common to all three operating systems, and the few software changes were trivial and unlikely to improve disk performance.