Test Setup
| Processors | |
|---|---|
| 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, Rev. 1.03Intel E7505 Chipset |
| Graphics Card | Matrox Millennium G450 AGP, 32 MB |
| Hard Drives | System Drive: Western Digital WD800JBTest Drives: Array consisting of8x Seagate Savvio, ST936701LC, 74 GB 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache for StorCase8x Western Digital WD740 Raptor, 74 GB, 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache for 3Ware |
| Controller I | LSI Logic MegaRAID SCSI 320-2, Firmware 1L33Dual-Channel, 128 MB ECC Cache |
| Controller II | 3Ware 9500-12S12 Ports, 128 MB ECC Cache |
| Software | |
| Intel Chipset | Intel Chipset Installation Utility 5.1.1.1002Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition Ver. 3.53 |
| DirectX | 9.0b |
| OS | Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 5.2.3790 |
| Controller Drivers | 3Ware Software 9.1.5.2LSI MegaRAID 6.43.2.32 |
| Benchmarks & Settings | |
| I/O Performance | IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver Benchmark PatternWebserver Benchmark PatternDatabase Benchmark PatternWorkstation Benchmark PatternThroughput Benchmark Pattern |
Since we wanted to compare the system to a common Serial ATA solution using 3Ware's 9500 card, we only used one SCSI channel. We could not gather more than eight Western Digital Raptor drives running identical firmware versions, so we also ran the StorCase benchmarks with only eight Savvio drives. LSI Logic's MegaRAID SCSI 320-2 was used for testing the InfoStation.