Storage evaluation
FireWire support is provided by external ASICs, and only Foxconn's 975X7AB, featuring a Texas Instruments controller, lags behind. Bridge-attached storage performs in a similar fashion. You'll see that there are no numbers for the P35A due to the obvious reason of it not being implemented.
We note that the ICH9 doesn't provide chipset-based RAID, and the Foxconn P35 is the only board in this performance comparison that's bereft of multi-function RAID functionality, if that matters to you. It also sports 'only' 4 ports, compared to the 6 bridge-attached on offer elsewhere (i975X supports 4, too).
