X48 Motherboard Comparison, Part 2

Hard Drive Performance: IOMeter

x48 motherboard comparison

x48 motherboard comparison

x48 motherboard comparison

x48 motherboard comparison

The only thing that affected the IOMeter File Server benchmark pattern is block size, where two of the controllers defaulted to 64k blocks and the other four defaulted to 128k blocks. Otherwise, the charts overlap. The single drive supported by ECS follows the higher path !

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.