Test System 1

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz EE (800MHz FSB) (Supplied by Intel)

Motherboard: Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra64 (Supplied by Gigabyte)

Memory: 2x 512MB OCZ DDR-533 (Supplied by OCZ)

Hard Disk: 2 x Seagate 7200.9 SATA in RAID 0 (Supplied by Seagate)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce 6800GT (Supplied by Gigabyte)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2

Test System 2

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz EE (800MHz FSB) (Supplied by Intel)

Motherboard: ASUS P4GD1

Memory: 2x 512MB OCZ DDR-533 (Supplied by OCZ)

Hard Disk: 2 x Seagate 7200.9 SATA in RAID 0 (Supplied by Seagate)

Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce 6800GT (Supplied by Gigabyte)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2

For our testing we compared the Rocket RAID 2220 against its older brother, the RocketRAID 1820A to see how far these controllers have come.

The nature of the Gigabyte Ultra board is that it supports PCI-X slots with the ICH5-S Southbridge. The ASUS P4GD1 was selected due to its support for DDR memory, the same Socket 478 CPU but also supports PCI Express x1 slots, which is what we needed to run the Silicon Image 3132 PCI-E controller card.

HD Tach

Version and / or Patch Used: 3.0

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