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    Iwill Side Raid 66 Controller Review
    Date Not Available
    Testing

    Test System
    • Dual 366@550
    • Abit BP6
    • 128 MB PC100 SDRAM
    • 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 32MB
    • Diamond MX-300
    • Iwill SIDE-RAID66
    • 13 GB IBM 34GXP
    • 10 GB Quantum EL
    • Windows 98


    The test environment used here is identical to the environment used to test the FastTrack66. My previous testing was done using Windows 98, which didn't utilize the Iwill card to it's full potential. Comparing the cards tested in two different environments is like comparing apples to oranges. So I tested again using my usual benchmarking utilities, Winbench 99, Wintune 98, and CliBench MK II v1.0.0. What do these tests measure? They measure raw performance in different situations. Winbench tests the drive in various applications to provide a more general rating. My intent in using these benchmarks is to give variety so that you can measure performance in certain areas more clearly. All scores are in kb/s unless stated otherwise. The next section contains the updated scores.

    Benchmark Scores

    The following are the benchmark scores using the RAID controllers.

    Winbench 99 SIDE-RAID66 FastTrack66
    Business Disk Winmark 3,680 4,240
    High-End Disk Winmark 11,200 12,100
    Disk Access Time 9.67 ms 9.93 ms
    Disk CPU Utilization 2.3% 2.26%
    AVS/Express 3.4 13,100 13,900
    Frontpage 98 50,600 42,500
    Microstation SE 17,500 16,400
    Photoshop 4.0 6,960 6,770
    Premiere 4.2 8,090 10,800
    Sound Forge 4.0 10,700 11,800
    Visual C++ 5.0 9,100 10,100
    Wintune 98 SIDE-RAID66 FastTrack66
    Cached Disk 218 MB/s 221 MB/s
    Uncached Disk 3.2 MB/s 3.89 MB/s
    Wintune 98 SIDE-RAID66 FastTrack66
    Read Max 21,880 19,320
    Read Average 21,694 18,826
    Read Min 20,480 16,337
    CPU Utilization 4% 1%
    Write Max 25,221 27,379
    Write Average 24,650 25,409
    Write Min 23,378 21,880

    These benchmarks are of the individual hard drives on the BP6 ATA/66 controller. These are basically the baseline scores.

    Winbench 99 Quantum IBM
    Business Disk Winmark 3,610 3,970
    High-End Disk Winmark 7,470 9,550
    Disk Access Time 15.2 ms 12.3 ms
    Disk CPU Utilization 1.74% 1.74%
    AVS/Express 3.4 8,410 13,700
    Frontpage 98 32,200 37,600
    Microstation SE 12,200 16,600
    Photoshop 4.0 3,920 4,900
    Premiere 4.2 6,230 7,350
    Sound Forge 4.0 7,130 8,900
    Visual C++ 5.0 6,690 8,280
    Wintune 98 Quantum IBM
    Cached Disk 175 MB/s 178 MB/s
    Uncached Disk 3 MB/s 3.38 MB/s
    CliBench Quantum IBM
    Read Max 10,578 9,642
    Read Average 10,112 8,832
    Read Min 8,407 6,305
    CPU Utilization 1% 0%
    Write Max 12,610 19,320
    Write Average 11,662 18,517
    Write Min 8,393 16,410


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    1. Intro/What Is RAID?
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    3. Installation
    4. Testing/Benchmark Scores
    5. Interperting The Results/Applications
    6. Comparison To FastTrack66/Conclusion
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    Author: Tom Solinap
    Company: Iwill
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