TEST BED 

TESTING METHODOLOGY
 

   Although the purpose of this review is to compare two SATA/SAS 6Gb/s controllers still we will be doing that with the help of 8 Kingston HyperX 120GB SATA III SSDs so we will be using a similar testing procedure with the one we test both 2.5" and 3.5" drives. So once again we will be using our standard selection of benchmark suites such as the famous HD Tach RW (Long Bench 32mb Zones), HD Tune Pro (read/write -when possible- speeds), Sisoftware Sandra Pro (Read/Write -also when possible- speeds), AIDA64 (Linear Read/Random Read), Crystal Disk Mark x64 (100MB/1000MB read/write speeds) and finally the quite outdated yet highly reliable ATTO 2.46 (Max Read/Max Write speeds). On top of those we also used the latest version of ASSSD and IOMETER (4k random writes). Each test was repeated for a total of 6 times and after that the average (not peak) performance numbers were recorded into our charts. As always every test was performed in a fresh installation of Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1 with every update installed up to August 22nd 2012.