Performance in WinBench 99

This benchmarking suite helps to evaluate the disk subsystem performance in desktop applications.

We will compare the speeds of the arrays in two subtests: Business Disk Winmark and High-End Disk Winmark.

As might have been expected, the RAID0 arrays of two, three and four disks are the fastest. The RAID10 is close in performance to the two-disk RAID0. There was also competition between the RAID1 array and the single drive: the JBOD is faster with Write Through caching, but slower with Write Back caching.

Now we switch to the FAT32 file system:

The speeds are overall faster in FAT32 than in NTFS, and we can also notice that the RAID1 is slower than the JBOD here.