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 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