Enormous CD/Disk numbers: How?

[SCSI]

Hello,

Several top benchmark submissions have enormous CD and diskmark results (e.g. CD mark of 267988 and diskmark of 42024). How are these high numbers possible? I am running 3 high-end SSD's in RAID1 mode with extremely high end system (5GHz i7-980X, 12GB 6-6-8-24 DDR3...) but my diskmark is 4732, nearly an order of magnitude below the highest numbers. Similarly, my cdmark is 916, more than 2 orders of magnitude less than the highest number.

Any idea how those kind of numbers can be achieved?

Thanks!

[David (PassMark)]

Well have a look. But pure RAM drives make SSD's look slow. And there are also drives like the Fusion-io that do around 1500 MB/sec

[SCSI]

Thanks. A hothardware.com review shows that fusion-io has a similar performance as 2 to 4 of SSD RAID. So ~10X performance even from fusion-io is not possible. Also, this does not explain over 100X bigger cdmark.

Do the benchmark submisisons include what CD/HD harware was used for that benchmark? If so that would explain these results.

[Michael (Passmark)]

I had a look at the data and it does just seem to be people RAM disks. The CD drives are also RAM disks of some sort.

[David (PassMark)]

The hothardware article also only looked at the slower 700MB/sec iofusion drive. There is a faster model available.