Image processing

Adobe Photoshop

ACDSee PowerPack

ACDSee clearly shows a performance advantage from striping. Again, Matrix RAID volumes are within a couple of seconds of their Matrix-less counterparts.

Multitasking and office applications

Microsoft Office

Mozilla

Mozilla and Windows Media Encoder

RAID doesn't do much for WorldBench's office and multi-tasking tests, where all configurations are pretty close.

Other applications

Winzip

Nero

Winzip and Nero both show improved performance with RAID 0, although differences are much more pronounced in Nero. There, Matrix RAID offers a notable performance gain over traditional RAID configurations. It's also interesting to note that both Matrix RAID 1 and RAID 1 are slower than our single-drive configuration in Nero.