Cheap and Reliable RAID 5 Storage Compared

Features
By
Published

Test System

Swipe to scroll horizontally
Processor
Socket 604 Dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 512 kB Cache, FSB533
System Components
DDR-SDRAM 2x 512 MB PC3200 Samsung, ECC, Registered
Motherboard Asus PP-DLW, Rev. 1.03Intel E7505 Chipset
Graphics Card nVIDIA GeForce FX 5900, 128 MB
Hard Drive System Drive: Western Digital WD800JBTest Drive: RAID-5 Array consisting of 4x Western Digital WD360 Raptor, 36 GB, 10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Software
Intel Chipset Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53
DirectX 9.0b
OS Windows XP Professional Build 2600 Service Pack 1

Benchmarks

Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.