External Storage With RAID: Proware DP-405CI

Test System

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Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz256 kB L2 Cache (Willamette)
Motherboard Intel 845EBTIntel 845E ChipsetBIOS BT84520A.86A.0024.P10
Memory 512 MB DDR (PC3200), CL2.5Samsung
Controller i845E UltraDMA/100-Controller (ICH4)On-Board USB 2.0 (ICH4)On-Board FireWireCentury Global Firewire 800
Graphics Card ATI Radeon SDRAM, 32 MB
Network 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
OS Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600Service Pack 1
Benchmarks & Measurements
Office Performance ZD WinBench 99 - Business DiskWinmark 2.0 c't h2benchw
High-End Performance ZD WinBench 99 - High-End Disk Winmark 2.0
Performance measurements c't h2benchw 3.6
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10
Drivers & Settings
Graphics driver 5.1.2001.0 (Windows XP Standard)
IDE driver Intel INF Drivers 5.02.1003
DirectX version 9.0c
Resolution 1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz refresh

We tested the DP-405CI in the interesting RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 modes with all three possible interface variants. We also measured the performance of a degraded RAID 5 array (representing a hard drive crash) with FireWire 1394b.

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.