Raid 1 Update

Only a few days have passed and the requests for Raid One tests have been phenomenal.   It has been without doubt been a huge success for Western Digital on the initial outing.   The results achieved have been absolutely astonishing and taken many professionals by complete surprise at the performance of the overall system I/O and the array of drives.   Therefore to appease our readers and a few other major players in the system builders arena etc who are about to receive their stocks we have addressed briefly those requests.  

The results within speak very clearly for themselves as a picture paints a thousand words; so there is absolutely no need for a running commentary of the results gained from each of the systems. 

Following the identical build which we used for the Raid 0 system, we reformatted the drives with complete low level formats and rebuilt the array on the card to Raid 1

Benchmarks and Software Used 64-bit Mode

Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit SP2
ATTO
Crystal Mark Drive Benchmark
Everest Ultimate
HD TACH 3.0.4.0
Sandra 2010
PCMark 2005 Advanced Hard Disc Test (Latest build and fixes)
POV Ray 3.7 beta 35
Cinebench 10 64-Bit
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit (New)
SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™
SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit.   Tests ran at 1280 X 1024 Resolution.

Page 1 - Introduction
Page 2 - The WD VelociRaptor in the Raw
Page 3 - System Set-Up and Software Used
Page 4 - ATTO.   Crystal Mark Drive Benchmark. HD TACH 3.0.4.0
Page 5 - Everest Ultimate Version 5 (Latest Build)
Page 6 - Sandra 2010 and PCMark 2005 Advanced Hard Disc Test
Page 7 - Cinebench 10 64-Bit.   Cinebench 11.5 64-bit.   Bentley MicroStation Graphics Benchmark
Page 8 - SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit.   SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™.   POV Ray 3.7 beta 35
Page 9 - Conclusions and Award
Update 1 - Raid 1 Results   Update Introduction and Test System Used
Update 2 - Raid 1 Results   ATTO.   Crystal Mark Drive Benchmark.   HD TACH 3.0.4.0
Update 3 - Raid 1 Results   Everest Ultimate.   Sandra 2010.   PCMark 2005 Advanced Hard Disc Test
Update 4 - Raid 1 Results   SPECviewperf® 10.0 64-bit.   SPECapc for SolidWorks 2007™.   Cinebench 10 and 11.5 64-bit.   POV Ray 3.7 beta