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Test Setup and Throughput

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System Hardware
Processor(s) 2x Intel Xeon Processor (Nocona core) 3.6 GHz, FSB800, 1 MB L2 Cache
Platform Asus NCL-DS (Socket 604) Intel E7520 Chipset, BIOS 1005
RAM Corsair CM72DD512AR-400 (DDR2-400 ECC, reg.) 2x 512 MB, CL3-3-3-10 Timings
System Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar WD1200JB 120 GB, 7,200 rpm, 8 MB Cache, UltraATA/100
Test Hard Drives (4x) I MemoRight MR25.2-032S 32 GB, Flash SSD, SATA
Test Hard Drives (4x) II Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150 GB, 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache, SATA
Test Hard Drives (4x) III Seagate Savvio 10K.2 73 GB, 10,000 RPM 16 MB Cache, SAS
Mass Storage Controller(s) Intel 82801EB UltraATA/100 Controller (ICH5) Adaptec RAID 5805
Networking Broadcom BCM5721 On-Board Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Graphics Card On-Board Graphics ATI RageXL, 8 MB

Benchmarks
Performance Measurements c’t h2benchw 3.6 PCMark05 V1.01
I/O Performance IOMeter 2003.05.10 Fileserver-Benchmark Webserver-Benchmark Database-Benchmark Workstation-Benchmark Streaming Read and Write Benchmarks

System Software & Drivers
OS Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1
Platform Driver Intel Chipset Installation Utility 7.0.0.1025
Graphics Driver Default Windows Graphics Driver

Read throughput is clearly better on the Quantum GoVault thanks to faster drive performance.

The same applies to write throughput -- Quantum has a USB 2.0 bottleneck, while the Iomega does not.

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