Well, as you can see, the previous testing was definitely flawed. These scores are consistent with what I suspected all along. The old scores had the Iwill card crawling in comparison to the Promise card. Now it looks as if they are in fact relatively equal in terms of performance. The Promise card does perform better in some scores but clearly, the Iwill card is no slacker. The CliBench scores suggest that the transfer rate pretty much doubles in the RAID configurations. That is consistent with what is supposed to happen. It looks as if the Iwill card takes a bit more CPU time than the Promise card. The scores are very close, and it's hard to determine from these scores alone which is the better card.

Always keep in mind that two different hard drives are used, so the performance can still be increased. Undoubtedly, Windows NT offers a great increase in speed than Windows 98 does. But then again, RAID is usually used in servers which are run better with NT anyway. I guess NT is better equip to handle the file transfers, especially with NTFS.

There are numerous applications of the Iwill SIDE RAID66 controller. It's low price, $99 MSRP, is ideal for the budget server. Other SCSI RAID solutions cost upwards of $300 or more. Adding redundancy to your system is a great benefit. If you system has critical information, mirroring your drives can save you money in the long run in case something goes wrong. Small businesses can now afford to have their information safe without spending large amounts of cash. Recovering a damaged mirror is quick and simple, thus saving more time and money. Gamers can now experience the speed of RAID 0. The above scores show an increase in performance which will translate directly into faster game load times. No more hard drive thrashing when you get into a large Quake 3 FFA.

Professionals that use video editing tools frequently can now have good performance at a low price. Similarly, mp3 encoding and manipulation will be faster as well. Imagine crisp movie and sound playback while running background applications without any skipping. Basically anything that has to do with large or frequent data transfers will be see an increase in performance. This translates to most any application you can think off and improves over all system speed. In addition to being a RAID solution, the Iwill card is also a good ATA/66 card. You have the choice of using it as a regular expansion card and then later buying a second hard drive for RAID capability.