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jhajduk

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 25, 2010
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I read a post a while back saying that vertex les don't perform in macbook pros.

Well I purchased two of them and put them in a raid0 so i figured i would share my results.

I used a 128k stripe block size

PHP:
QuickBench(TM) 4.0 Test Results
©2000-2007 Intech Software Corp.
Test file created on Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 2:00:23 AM
Test Volume Name: INTERNAL
Test Volume Type: MacOS Extended
Test Volume Size: 185.680 Gigabytes
Test Volume Free Space: 104.693 Gigabytes
Allow Disk Cache Effects: Disabled
All reads and writes performed sychronously

Standard Test Results:
Test Cycles: 1 

Transfer Size   Sequential Read   Sequential Write    Random Read      Random Write

   4 KBytes      28.817 MB/Sec     36.560 MB/Sec     21.437 MB/Sec     36.961 MB/Sec
   8 KBytes      49.202 MB/Sec     54.452 MB/Sec     38.229 MB/Sec     54.906 MB/Sec
  16 KBytes      80.520 MB/Sec     87.616 MB/Sec     70.548 MB/Sec     88.408 MB/Sec
  32 KBytes      120.841 MB/Sec    126.960 MB/Sec    110.020 MB/Sec    127.191 MB/Sec
  64 KBytes      185.084 MB/Sec    171.258 MB/Sec    168.975 MB/Sec    186.363 MB/Sec
 128 KBytes      239.042 MB/Sec    212.957 MB/Sec    229.407 MB/Sec    253.872 MB/Sec
 256 KBytes      255.597 MB/Sec    320.416 MB/Sec    241.264 MB/Sec    313.988 MB/Sec
 512 KBytes      277.058 MB/Sec    324.298 MB/Sec    274.564 MB/Sec    329.395 MB/Sec
1024 KBytes      307.697 MB/Sec    357.207 MB/Sec    303.142 MB/Sec    361.720 MB/Sec

Standard Ave     171.540 MB/Sec    187.969 MB/Sec    161.954 MB/Sec    194.756 MB/Sec


Large Test Results:
Test Cycles: 1

Transfer Size         Large Read         Large Write

  2 MBytes           316.320 MB/Sec     378.143 MB/Sec
  3 MBytes           330.469 MB/Sec     416.983 MB/Sec
  4 MBytes           338.792 MB/Sec     405.452 MB/Sec
  5 MBytes           340.505 MB/Sec     407.062 MB/Sec
  6 MBytes           344.648 MB/Sec     412.582 MB/Sec
  7 MBytes           347.734 MB/Sec     410.955 MB/Sec
  8 MBytes           349.508 MB/Sec     418.344 MB/Sec
  9 MBytes           349.318 MB/Sec     415.099 MB/Sec
 10 MBytes           345.286 MB/Sec     413.245 MB/Sec

 Large Ave           340.287 MB/Sec     408.651 MB/Sec


Extended Test Results:
Test Cycles: 1

Transfer Size        Extended Read      Extended Write

 20 MBytes           349.316 MB/Sec     316.481 MB/Sec
 30 MBytes           349.993 MB/Sec     409.326 MB/Sec
 40 MBytes           350.257 MB/Sec     416.572 MB/Sec
 50 MBytes           351.208 MB/Sec     420.805 MB/Sec
 60 MBytes           350.830 MB/Sec     411.490 MB/Sec
 70 MBytes           352.072 MB/Sec     417.211 MB/Sec
 80 MBytes           345.857 MB/Sec     419.941 MB/Sec
 90 MBytes           351.463 MB/Sec     413.885 MB/Sec
100 MBytes           351.062 MB/Sec     412.975 MB/Sec

Extended Ave         350.229 MB/Sec     404.299 MB/Sec


Custom Test Results:
Transfer Size: 200 Megabytes
Transfer Count: 10
Test Cycles: 2
Contiguous File Only: No

Maximum Measured Read Speed: 352.127 MB/Sec
Average Measured Read Speed: 351.129 MB/Sec
Minimum Measured Read Speed: 348.539 MB/Sec
Maximum Measured Write Speed: 420.797 MB/Sec
Average Measured Write Speed: 408.790 MB/Sec
Minimum Measured Write Speed: 389.262 MB/Sec
 
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