The Storage Champions: ATA/100 IDE RAID Controllers From AMI, HighPoint And Promise

Test Setup

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Hardware
ProcessorAMD Athlon-C 1200 at 133 MHz FSB
Memory256 MB PC266 DDR memory by Infinieon, CL2
System DriveSeagate ST320430A
Graphics CardnVIDIA GeForce 2 GTS, 32 MB
Drivers & Software
DirectX version8.0a
OSWindows 2000 Professional, Version 5.00.2195, Service Pack 2
Benchmarks and Settings
Application BenchmarkZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark and Highend Disk Winmark 2.0
Performance BenchmarkZD WinBench 99 - Business Disk Winmark and Highend Disk Winmark 2.0
Refresh Rate85 Hz for all Tests, V-Sync = off

Benchmark Results

Data Transfer Performance

As you can see, any setups using two striped drives results in pretty fast performance. Using two more drives does not speed up the maximum transfer rate by much, but it will raise the minimum rate - which is quite important for video editing tasks.

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.