Taking A Test Spin : Western Digital’s Raptor 150 GB with RAID-0
 

Reports around the web have already shown that this new Raptor is a speed demon - however, we wanted to take it one step further. We rounded up a posse of these drives and went about testing them in a high-speed RAID-0 configuration, to see how much speed is possible from a Serial ATA hard drive configuration. Not only did we test with the fastest Serial ATA drives on the market, we also utilized the fastest RAID card on the market today as well, Areca's ARC-1220 PCI Express x8 controller, to grab every bit of performance possible from these new drives. Let's get those platters spinning and those bits flying.