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Good, bad, or indifferent. Whatever your thoughts and/or feelings may be of the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset, the fact remains that it has given a strong boost of support to Intel's newer range of processors.
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RAID 0 Performance
Though the RAID 0 does show a performance improvement, the
business applications used in the Business Disk Winmark aspect of Winbench 99
does not fully exploit the capabilities of hard disks due to the fact that those
applications do not rely on heavy sequential transfer (or burst transfer). File
sizes tend to be a lot smaller and data being read is a lot more
random.
The VD133Pro's on-board RAID controller exhibits near identical
performance with Iwill own SIDE-RAID66 controller card, courtesy of the
Highpoint HPT368 controller chip.
Here we see a great deal of a performance boost of nearly double
over a single drive setup. As you can see, the performance of the VD133Pro RAID
shines clearly.
Threadmark 2.0 is purely a synthetic benchmark which does not
reflect real-world performance at all. However, as it does test more on the
sequential transfer performance of a hard disk, it is certainly appropriate in
measuring the performance gains of the on-board RAID controller where you can
see it really do its job well.
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