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Does RAID0 Really Increase Disk Performance?
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: November 1, 2006
Page: 2 of 6
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How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions the only variable device was the hard disk drive configuration.
 
Hardware Configuration

Software Configuration

  • Windows XP Professional installed using NTFS
  • Service Pack 2
  • DirectX 9.0c

Driver Versions

  • nVidia video driver version: 91.47
  • Intel Inf chipset driver version: 8.0.1.1002
  • Audio driver version: Sigmatel 5.10.5143
  • LAN driver version: Intel Pro/1000 9.5.12.0
  • RAID driver version (Marvell): 1.1.0.38-beta
  • RAID driver version (Intel): 5.5.0.1035

Used Software

We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.

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