Hard drive performance was outstanding. The KT7-RAID took full advantage of the 30 Gig IBM ATA 100 hard drive. This is one of the highest hard drive benchmark I've ever record. Most people would be happy with this level of drive speed. For those who want more, the Abit motherboard has a built in RAID controller, allowing you to add more hard drives for increase performance or security.
To test the RAID feature, I added a second IBM 30 Gig ATA100 drive and created a RAID 0 setup. This makes the two 30 Gig drives into one 60 Gig drive. Half the data is stored in one drive and the other half is stored into the second drive. Data is "striped" off both drives at the same time, effectively doubling hard drive speed. Check out this RAID 0 benchmark.
As good as the performance is from a single drive, it kinda pales in comparison to two IBM ATA100 drives in a RAID 0 setup. Considering the KT7-RAID is only $20 more than a KT7, I see no reason why anyone would not spend the extra money for this feature.
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