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AMCC Storage 3ware 9690SA SAS/SATA RAID Controller
Test Specification
The battery of tests that I performed on this controller are as follows:
- Speed Test
- Construct RAID0 using 8 disks
- Perform fresh installation of tested OS
- Run CrystalDiskMark 2.1
- Run Datamarck 0.0.4
- Run IOZone
The machine used during testing was as follows:
| Motherboard | Tyan Tomcat n3400B | Datasheet |
| Processor | AMD Opteron 1218 HE | |
| Memory | Corsair ValueSelect (2 x 1GB) DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) | |
| Chipset | nVIDIA nForce Pro 3400 | |
| Hard Disk Drive | Seagate Cheetah 15k.5 SAS Drive (8x) |
The Operating systems that were used during testing were:
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Canocial Ubuntu Server LTS
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