One of the benefits to owning ABIT's high-end KT7-RAID is the integrated ATA/100 RAID controller. When we wrote our KT7-RAID Review, we didn't anticipate the high amount of interest that the RAID feature would generate so we didn't benchmark the difference in disk performance utilizing the RAID feature. After receiving a hefty load of e-mail, we have decided to run a few additional benchmarks with the KT7-RAID to see how much performance can be had for the price of an additional hard drive.

All of the specifications in our RAID testing are identical to our test systems except for the hard drives; a pair of Western Digital 10.2GB 7200RPM drives supporting ATA/66 in a RAID 0 configuration. 64KB block sizes help further maximize performance, although the RAID BIOS allows choosing between 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64KB blocks. For testing done without the RAID feature enabled, we only used one of these WD drives.