Test Setup
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| Test System | |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Athlon XP 2200+ |
| Motherboard | DFI LANParty KT400AVIA KT400A ChipsetBIOS : May 6, 2003 |
| RAM | 256 MB DDR333/PC2700, CL2 Corsair Micro |
| Controller & Hard Drives | VIA VT8235 UltraATA/133HighPoint HPT372N On-BoardBIOS 2.3422x Western Digital WD2000BB |
| Display Adapter | nVIDIA GeForce3 Ti4200, 64 MB |
| Network Card | 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit |
| Operating System | Windows 2000 Professional5.00.2195, Service Pack 3 |
| Benchmarks and Tests | |
| Performance Measurements | HD Tach 2.61, c’t h2benchw |
| I/O performance | Intel IOMeter |
| Drivers and Settings | |
| Graphics Driver | NVIDIA Reference Driver 41.09 |
| Drivers | Intel Application Accelerator 2.3 |
| DirectX Version | 9.0 |
| Resolution | 1024 x 768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz refresh |
Owing to time restraints, we limited the capacity of the RAID array to 25 GB. Tests on total capacities of up to 400 GB would have taken much longer and would not have produced a different result. All the low-level measurements (IOMeter, HDTach) are only run without partitions anyway and refer to the total capacity of the RAID array.
