The RAID 6 Areca ARC-1120 One-ups RAID 5 Controllers

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Processor(s)
Socket 604Dual Intel Pentium 4 Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 512 kB Cache, FSB533
System Components
DDR-SDRAM2x 512 MB PC3200 Samsung, ECC, Registered
MotherboardAsus PP-DLW, Rev. 1.03Intel E7505 Chipset
Graphics CardMatrox Millennium G450 AGP, 32 MB
Hard DrivesSystem Drive: Western Digital WD800JBTest Drives: RAID 5 array consisting of 8x Western Digital WD740 Raptor, 74 GB, 10,000 rpm, 8 MB Cache
Controller IAreca ARC-11208-Port, 128 MB ECC Cache
Controller II3Ware 9500-12S12-Port, 128 MB ECC Cache
Software
Intel ChipsetIntel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53
DirectX9.0b
OSWindows XP Professional Build 2600, Service Pack 1
Benchmarks & Settings
Transfer-Performance Benchmarkc't h2benchw Ver. 3.6
Transfer DiagramWinbench 99 2.0Disk Inspection Test
I/O PerformanceIOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver Benchmark PatternWebserver Benchmark PatternDatabase Benchmark PatternWorkstation Benchmark PatternThroughput Benchmark Pattern
Application PerformanceWinbench 99 2.0Disk WinmarksDisk Inspection

Test Drives: Western Digital WD740 Raptor

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.