Multi-channel RAID for SATA: 3Ware, Highpoint and Raidcore/Broadcom
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Processor | |
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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, version 1.03 with PCI-XIntel E7505 Chipset |
Graphics card | Matrox G450, 32 MB |
Hard drives | System drive: Western Digital WD800JBTest drives: RAID-5 array consisting of4x Western Digital WD740 Raptor, 73 GB,10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cacheor12x Hitachi HDS722516VLSA80, 160 GB,7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache |
Controller I | 3Ware 9500-12S12-port, 128 MB cache w/ ECCFirmware: 2.02.00.008Driver: 2.4.1.8 |
Controller II | Raidcore BC4852, 2 controllers used for 12 drive tests8-portFirmware: 1.1.4148.4Driver: ? |
Controller III | Highpoint RocketRAID 1820A8-portFirmware: 1.1Driver: 1.1 |
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 2600Service Pack 1 |
Benchmarks & Settings | |
Transfer-performanceBenchmark | c't h2benchw ver. 3.6 |
Transfer diagram | Winbench 99 2.0Disk inspection test |
I/O performance | IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver benchmark patternWebserver benchmark patternDatabase benchmark patternWorkstation benchmark patternThroughput tests |
Application performance | Winbench 99 2.0 |
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