Performance in WinBench 99

WinBench is going to be our last test today. This benchmarking set has been always helping us in evaluating the disk subsystem performance in desktop applications in NTFS and FAT32 file systems. Test results for the NTFS file system are listed first, in the write-through and write-back modes:

The following table compares the arrays in two integral subtests: Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark:

The overall picture for the two modes looks like that: RAID0 arrays took the first three places, while the RAID5s are the slowest. All the arrays are faster during WB caching, although not too much faster, than in the write-through mode. However, the three-disk RAID5 and the two-disk RAID0 are faster in the write-back mode than the four-disk RAID5 and the three-disk RAID0, respectively. Note also that the single drive is faster than the RAID1 in this mode.