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Test Setup

07:00 - Monday 19 September 2005 by Patrick Schmid

Hardware
Processor	2x Intel Xeon, 3.6 GHz 1 MB L2 Cache (Nocona)
Motherboard	Asus NCL-DS Intel E7520 Chipset BIOS 1005
Memory	2x 512 MB DDR2-400 Corsair ECC Registered CL 3-3-3-10
Controller PATA/USB	Intel 82801EB (ICH5)
Controller SCSI	Adaptec AIC-7902B Ultra320
Controller SATA	Silicon Image Sil3124 4xPort SATA Controller
Graphics Card	ATI RageXL , 8 MB
Network	Broadcom BMC5721 PCIe Gigabit LAN Controller
OS	Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
Benchmarks
Performance measurements	Robocopy 1.96
Drivers & Settings
Graphics Driver	Windows Default Driver
IDE Driver	Intel INF Drivers 7.0.0.1025
DirectX version	9.0c
Resolution	1024x768, 32 Bit, 85 Hz

Benchmark Results: Real-World Data Throughput

Since it is very difficult to use conventional benchmarking software on network drives, we opted for a small copying program. Our test consisted of copying several 1 GB files from a fast dedicated server to the N4100 and vice versa.