Originally posted by Michael (Passmark)
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I uploaded a 7 Beta test tonight:

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


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.
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