NeoSeeker heeft een review geschreven rond de Hyperdisk 100 IDE RAID controller van American Megatrends. AMI is een erg bekende fabrikant van SCSI RAID controllers en met deze betaalbare Hyperdisk controller hopen ze RAID ook interessant te maken voor desktop doosjes. De Hyperdisk 100 heeft support voor hot sparing, ATA100 en de RAID levels 0 en 1. RAID 5 is zoals bij alle goedkope IDE RAID controllers niet mogelijk.
Helaas bleken de RAID 0 (striping) prestaties wat tegen te vallen. Terwijl Cmdr. Rosink in zijn IDE RAID / Abit HotRod100 Pro review bijna dubbele transfer rates wist te scoren, kwam de HyperDisk 100 in de HDTach test niet verder dan een verbetering van ongeveer 25%:
Overall the AMI Hyperdisk has a lot to offer. Remember to keep in mind that this is an IDE RAID controller –not SCSI so we shouldn’t expect to see any performance marks even close to SCSI. But we were hoping to see higher marks when using RAID 0 configurations –with slightly lower CPU marks. Even though the CPU is always going to be taxed when using any kind of RAID controller, anywhere over 50% seems rather high.
RAID 1 scores were as expected –and prove this controller can be used in a data redundant RAID 1 without a great lose of performance- but again, those CPU marks were rather high!
The Hyperdisk package has got all you need to have a decent IDE RAID setup. The price for the Hyperdisk 100 is an average $99, which isn’t bad, and it should serve most who are looking for about a 20-30% gain in disk performance over single disk configurations well. In addition the Hyperdisk has full RAID 1 support as well as Disk sparing support.
The utility requires the Microsoft Management Console version 1.1 to be installed, along with Internet Explorer 5 –all of which are included on the software CD. But make no mistake –it doesn’t work under Windows 98! So we used it in our Windows NT 4.0 sp6 machine.