Performance in WinBench99

In conclusion I ran some tests in WinBench99 software package. This benchmark has been used in our lab for years and still serves as an excellent tool for desktop performance tests.

We will start with NTFS this time:

The table is certainly not so illustrative as the diagrams. So, let’s compare the performance of different arrays in two integral subtests: Business Disk WinMark and High-End Disk WinMark:

RAID 5 arrays let everyone else go ahead. RAID 1 array defeated the single hard disk drive, while RAID 10 yielded to RAID 0 of three drives.

The efficiency of lazy writing is very important here, as we can see.

Since the linear read speed and Average Access Time are the same for NTFS and FAT32 file systems, we will offer you just two diagrams for both.

As you can see, the dependence of the read speed from the arrays on the array type is a little unusual by Intel’s controller (to put it mildly). The leader in reading appeared RAID 10 array of four drives. And the read speed achieved on it makes only 114MB/sec (which is equal to the read speed from two WD Raptor drives). And what about the other arrays?