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Originally
posted 07/18/03 by rob-ART
morgan,
mad scientist This article is
primarily designed to introduce the new
AEC-6885MS
4-CH High Scalability ATA133 RAID PCI Host
Adapter
from Acard.
Up to now, the ATA Hardware RAID cards were two
channel only. And they only supported RAID 0. This
new card supports RAID 0, 1, and 0+1... all in
hardware. Way kewl. I decided to test
the 6885MS with 4 drives, one on each channel. For
comparison purposes, I tested with two
AEC-6880M
dual channel ATA HW RAID cards, each with two
drives. In other words, four channels and four
drives. Of course, I had to use a combination of HW
RAID 0 and SW RAID 0 to stripe all four drives.
I wanted to see if one 4 channel card is faster
than two 2 channel cards. Finally, I
included FireWire 800 four drive RAID 0 (both 2 and
4 channels) and Ultra320 SCSI four drive RAID 0
(both 2 and 4 channels). In other words, if cost
is no object, what's the fastest 4 drive
combination, ATA-133? FireWire 800? or Ultra320
SCSI? And if cost is a factor, what's the best
buy? FIRST, THE
BENCHMARK RESULTS FOR REAL WORLD
TESTS AND ANALYSIS, GO
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