Linear Read Speed

As usual, we will wind up our review with the linear read graphs:

• 1HDD JBOD (Graph )
• 2HDD RAID 1 (Graph )
• 2HDD RAID 0 (Graph )
• 3HDD RAID 0 (Graph )
• 3HDD RAID 5 (Graph )
• 4HDD RAID 0 (Graph )
• 4HDD RAID 5 (Graph )
• 4HDD RAID 10 (Graph )

Conclusion

Well, we have just tested the first hardware RAID5 controller from HighPoint. The results show that this is a pretty good product. RAID 0 arrays built with this controller are quite fast and demonstrate excellent performance scalability depending on the number of hard disk drives in an array. RAID1 and RAId10 mirrored arrays also proved highly efficient.

However, RAID5 arrays still leave much to be desired. I dare conclude that HighPoint software developers should pay a little bit more attention to this array type. However, I am confident that in the future HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 will become a very successful product.