Kill SCSI II: NetCell's RAID 0 Performance + RAID 5 Security Equals SyncRAID

Charts: Simulation Of A Hard Drive Crash

3Ware 7500-8, 5 Drives, RAID 5

Drive failure has considerable impact on power output. We interrupted the benchmark after a while because of time constraints.

NetCell NC-5464, 5 Drives, RAID XL

Unbelievably good: even if one hard drive is lost, the NetCell controller can continue operating in the usual manner and with practically the same level of performance.

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.