Test System Setup

Processor: Intel Pentium D 840 (800MHz FSB) (Supplied by Intel)

Memory: 2x 512MB Corsair DDR2-800

Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-SLI, ASUS P5WD2 (Supplied by ASUS)

Hard Disk: 2x Seagate 7200.9 (Supplied by Seagate)

Graphics Card: ATI Radeon X800XT Platinum (Supplied by ASUS)

Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2

In our testings we are going to compare the Highpoint controller against the following: nVidia's onboard RAID controller, Intel's onboard SATA RAID controller and the Silicon Image 3132 RAID controller.

We have chosen these for the following reasons. The nVidia SATA RAID controller is included in the nForce 4 Pro series chipsets. The Intel ICH7R SATA controller is used on Intel Xeon boards of late and the Silicon Image as it's the only other PCI Express based SATA RAID controller on the market.

PCMark

Version and / or Patch Used: 2005 Build 1.1.0

Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com

Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/pcmark04/

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Here we can see that the Highpoint controller manages to just edge ahead of the onboard controllers and well ahead of the Silicon Image 3132 chip.