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toby

11-22-2000, 12:39 AM

Does anyone know of a tool that allows me to measure the performance of my hard drives.
I would like to know if my dedicated Giga-system (Celermine 700, 256MB, Ethernet 100) can stream fast enough from my main DAW with all the SCSI LVD drives. I have followed all the tips from Killerbobjr and still maxing out at about 62 voices.
Thanks in advance

Doug

11-22-2000, 01:55 PM

Toby-

There is a free utility available for download at www.attotech.com (\"http://www.attotech.com\") called Express ProTools (no relation to the Digidesign software) which will measure sustained transfer rate performance.

Doug

toby

11-23-2000, 01:55 AM

Thanks Doug,
I\'ve tried Sandra 2001 and the results returned weren\'t to bad:
local UDMA66 drive reports
- access time 7ms
- sequential read 34MB/s
- random read 6MB/s

the network drive is lower than what I expected, but still not to bad:
- access time 9ms
- sequential read 6MB/s
- random read 4MB/s

still can\'t get more than 62 voices before cracknpop from either drives.