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Serial ATA Benchmarks
The architecture used on the 3ware 9500S Serial ATA RAID controllers is based on a combination of design points that includes a switch fabric, non-blocking, low latency data path. 3ware is the only SATA RAID supplier that offers this unique approach to high capacity, high performance RAID solutions.
The table below uses Intel's Iometer benchmark program to provide test results achieved with the 3ware 9500S-8 66MHz Serial ATA RAID controller and Western Digital 10,000 RPM disk drives.
Card Type / RAID Level I/O Type Sequential I/O Increase over 8506-8
9500S-8 RAID 0 Read 409.4 MBytes/sec + 96.5%
9500S-8 RAID 0 Write 210.0 MBytes/sec + 4.2 %
9500S-8 RAID 5 Read 402.8 MBytes/sec + 113.0%
9500S-8 RAID 5 Write 113.0 MBytes/sec + 23.9%
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