The hardware is identical.  The only difference here is in firmware.

Testing Methods   

Our tests are a good mix of synthetic and real-world
benchmarks.  PCMark, IOMeter, HDTach, HDTune, Yapt and our custom File
Copy test round out the selection to cover just about all bases.  If you
have any questions about our tests just
drop into the
Storage Forum and we'll help you out!   

Test System Setup   

We have switched our testbed over to a more dedicated,
forward thinking machine.  We made some changes to help minimize test
data scatter with higher bandwidth devices.  Sound is flat out disabled,
with no additional card installed.  Video was *intentionally* shifted
to a PCI unit to free up both PCIe-16 slots for testing tandem pairs of
PCI Express cards (like ioDrives, DDRDrives, and high end
RAID cards).  Spot checks against the previous rig showed a
negligible change in test output.   

PC Perspective would like to thank ASUS, Corsair, and
BFG for supplying some of the components of our test rig.   

• PCMark05
• Yapt
• IOMeter
• HDTach
• HDTune   

• PCPer File Copy Test