Solid State Disk Drives Are Here
RAID With Flash Hard Drives
SanDisk was kind enough to provide two SSDs for this review, because we wanted to see how they would perform when setup in a RAID 0 array. Flash SSDs are much more robust, don’t suffer from physical impact and endure higher operation temperatures (up to 70°C, depending on the model). Given its robustness, RAID 0 is more attractive for flash SSD compared to conventional hard drives, which can crash from one day to the next. Also, a potential sweet spot for future flash drives is RAID 0 with two flash SSDs.
Test Setup
System Hardware | |
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Processor(s) | 2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core)3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache |
Platform | Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604)Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005 |
RAM | Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.)2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings |
System Hard Drive | Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB120 GB, 7,200 RPM, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100 |
Mass Storage Controller(s) | Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5)Promise SATA 300TX4Promise FastTrak TX4310Driver 2.06.1.310 |
Networking | Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC |
Graphics Card | On-Board GraphicsATI RageXL, 8 MB |
System Hardware | |
Performance-Messungen | c’t h2benchw 3.6 |
PCMark05 | V1.01 |
I/O Performance | IOMeter 2003.05.10Fileserver-BenchmarkWebserver-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-Benchmark |
System Software & Drivers | |
OS | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1 |
Platform Driver | Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025 |
Graphics Driver | Default Windows Graphics Driver |
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