Subject: | Re: Test results from RC01 |
Date: | Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:19:02 -0700 |
From: | Steve Gibson <news008_@_grc.com> |

Following up on what AlanD wrote...
> I have just tried RC01 on my main machine.
>
> A few comments:-
>
> 1 Speeds are impressive compared with 6.0
+1
> 2 The main drive in this machine is a 1TB Intel P660 NVMe
> drive, so only accessible via the BIOS in 6.1. However, it
> showed a speed of 439MB/s on Level 2.
Yes. There's no reason for a BIOS to greatly slower than a
native driver for "forward only" levels 1 and 2. But, since BIOS
transfers are limited to 127 sectors, there will be SOME speed
reduction due to per-transfer overhead.
However, the BIOS's inability to transfer more than 127 sectors
is a SIGNIFICANT performance liability for any levels which
repeat work on the same region, which is all levels above 2.
> 3 One oddity on the 4TB drive in this machine. The detailed
> technical log shows the transfers to be 32768 sectors, but the
> real time activities screen shows transfer block size of 1024.
Yes. The DTL's 32,768 transfer sectors is SpinRite's MAXIMUM
transfer size. The RTA's screen shows the CURRENT transfer size,
which will vary depending upon a number of factors. For example,
it will transfer 1,024 sectors at a time for the "forward only"
levels 1 and 2. But since 1,024 sectors will be a significant
impedance for any levels higher than 2, it will transfer at
32,768 sectors for levels 3, 4 & 5. And during any data recovery
work, transfers will drop to 1. So the RTA's screen is
inherently dynamic. :)
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