Chipset Serial ATA RAID Performance Exposed

TheRaindog writes "Serial ATA RAID has become a common check-box feature for new motherboards, but The Tech Report's chipset Serial ATA and RAID comparison reveals that the performance of Intel, NVIDIA, SiS, and VIA's SATA RAID implementations can be anything but common. There are distinct and sometimes alarming performance differences between each chipset's Serial ATA and RAID implementations. It's also interesting to see performance scale from single-drive configurations to multi-disk arrays, which don't offer as much of a performance gain in day-to-day applications as one might expect."

Comments

Too Many Checkbox feature

[superpulpsicle]

I know so many techies who are just plain sick of new formats every year. Remember the days when IDE/SCSI was all you needed.

USB1.0
USB2.0
Firewall
Serial ATA

Holyshit, at this rate I will have 1 new input per year. Why can't we wait a couple years and all agree on 1 super format.

Poor Benchmark System

[fire-eyes]

I still find benchmarking anything on Windows very silly. There is far too much overhead of the GUI, not to mention it's ineffeciency in general.

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