Well, last night I discovered that my testing methodology was flawed and the results are all over the board.
Plus I changed the test configuration in the middle of the testing.
So, I’m going to backup and take another run at it.
I had run just one test per drive configuration and the results are weird. Then last night I ran multiple tests on one configuration and those results didn’t match the first test for that configuration.
And I upgraded the firmware on the IDE controller cards in the middle of the testing. D’oh.
So my new plan is this:
- Upgrade the BIOS on the motherboard (if it needs it.)
- Reset the PnP BIOS configuration after each controller card swap – I think this might have caused issues.
- Run the test 10 times for each configuration and average the results. This should even out some of the whacky results I saw.
- Not change the test configuration in the middle of the tests!
So it will take a bit to do all this. Maybe I can get it done this weekend. We’ll see.
