File Copy Test
File Copy Test is a pseudo-real-world benchmark that times how long it takes to create, read, and copy files in various test patterns. File copying is tested twice: once with the source and target on the same partition, and once with the target on a separate partition. Scores are presented in MB/s.

To make things easier to read, we've separated our FC-Test results into individual graphs for each test pattern. We'll tackle file creation performance first.

The ANS-9010 easily outguns the competition in FC-Test's file creation tests. Only the i-RAM and X25-E Extreme give it much competition here, and they're really only within striking distance of the single-drive config in two of the five test patterns. Striping makes the ANS-9010 even faster, although it's hardly the doubling of performance one might expect—or at least hope for—from such an arrangement.

Interestingly, the ANS-9010 stumbles a little when FC-Test moves from writes to reads. ACard's RAM disk is by no means slow, but it's not as quick as Intel's X25-series SSDs, which take the first two spots through four of five test patterns. Only with the Windows test pattern, which is made up of a large number of small files, does the ANS-9010 eke out a win, and then only when running in RAID 0.