System used for testing:


HP ML350 G5 one quad and 4GB ram
Perc6i raid controller with 256MB and battery

For benchmarking we used CrystalDisk and HDTune

Please see CrystalDisk results below

Six drives mbc2073 in Raid 0

Now lets take a look at the results of HDTune

HD Tune Read test raid 0

HD Tune Write test Raid 0

HD Tune Random test Raid 0

Now lets rerun the tests in Raid 5 configuration

CrystalDisk Raid 5

HD Tune read test raid 5

HD Tune write test raid 5

HD Tune random test raid 5

Conclusion

Results are as expected and this solution is useful when space is limited. We can easily install eight drives in two 5.25" inclosure in a workstation to achieve high read write performance.