• System used for testing:
  HP ML350 G5 quad CPU with 4GB RAM
  Five Seagate disks and Perc6i with 256MB

• For benchmarking we used CrystalDisk and HDTune

• Please see CrystalDisk results below

Raid 5	Raid 6

• As expected Raid 5 performed much better





• Now lets take a look at the results of HDTune

Raid 5	Raid 6
Raid 5	Raid 6

• Conclusion

• We already new that Raid 5 would perform better than Raid 6, the test above confirmed our prediction. We will also look at how Raid 5 compares to Raid 0.