what are these?

[The Dad Fisherman]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

JR hit the nail on the head. Everything is run through the OS and that is often what bogs things down.

But once your O/S is loaded into memory where is the overhead coming from accessing the hard drive. Quicker boot times I get.....Overall performance.....Negligible.

If I have an application that is performing intensive Read/Writes I can definitely see a benefit to these for that reason....Databases come to mind......very read intensive

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman

But once your O/S is loaded into memory where is the overhead coming from accessing the hard drive. Quicker boot times I get.....Overall performance.....Negligible.

If I have an application that is performing intensive Read/Writes I can definitely see a benefit to these for that reason....Databases come to mind......very read intensive

Your OS doesn't load into memory (and stay resident) - 'specially Window$ - too big, lots of memory. Parts of the OS may run in memory but many parts are swapped in and out from disk. Increasing the disk speed and making the read / write times near instant instead of the relatively slow seeking of the disk heads...

(He said diskheads )