RocketRAID 3220 Performance Report
 

It’s a Brand New HighPoint! we are releasing the highest performing SATA II IOP hardware RAID controller (RocketRAID 3220) that beats the competition. The RocketRAID 3220 is power by our advanced TerabyteStream™ technology with superior performance in mission critical enterprise server environments. The performance comparisons in this report compares real world simulations of random READ/WRITE access server environments

RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays were tested with two conditions. The first testing condition was in Normal Mode. All drives in the storage array are fully accessible. Performance results were expected to be high in Normal Mode and the RocketRAID 3220 performance results are spectacular.

The comparison charts in the preceding pages show performance comparison against Areca ARC-1120 and 3ware 9550SUX-8LP series host adapters.

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RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120 vs. 9550SUX-8LP

RAID 5 Normal Mode

Database Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120 vs. 9550SUX-8LP

RAID 5 Normal Mode

FileServer Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

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RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120 vs. 9550SUX-8LP

RAID 5 Normal Mode

WebServer Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120 vs. 9550SUX-8LP

RAID 5 Normal Mode

Workstation Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

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RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120

RAID 6 Normal Mode

Database Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120

RAID 6 Normal Mode

Fileserver Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

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RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120

RAID 6 Normal Mode

Webserver Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

RocketRAID 3220 vs. ARC-1120

RAID 6 Normal Mode

Workstation Simulation (Random Access) (I/O ps)

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Test Environment

CPU XEON 2.8GHz

Motherboard

SuperMicro X6DH8-G2

Memory

4GB SDRAM

HDD

WD2500KSG*8
Windows OS: Windows 2003+SP1(En)

Testing Utility:

Iometer-2006.07.27.win32.i386
Host Adapter BIOS/Firmware version  

HighPoint RocketRAID 3220 v1.2.19.5
ARC1120 BIOS: 1.43
3ware9550SUX-8LP- 3.08.02.005

 

Host Adapter Device Driver  

HighPoint RocketRAID 3220 1.1
ARC-1120 v1.20.00.13
3ware9550SUX-8LP – 9.3.0.4

 
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