I like this...

[Russian]

So, lads... what controllers are you guys currently rocking?

I've got an LSI 8265-8i. Managed to do some serious damage with 8 Patriot WildFire drives... :D

[Computurd]

that is a good setup, i love the 9265-8i, and have actually had the pleasure of rocking some benches with the wildfires as well. really a great combo :)

[Russian]

that is a good setup, i love the 9265-8i, and have actually had the pleasure of rocking some benches with the wildfires as well. really a great combo :)

My biggest complaint was actually that the 4K performance took a pretty significant hit once you went past 4 drives...

[LinusTech]

9260-8i with 8x Corsair Force 120GB RAID0 with BBU and Fastpath add-on.

Stripe size is 32kB, but I'm actually not sure if that's optimal...

[Russian]

9260-8i with 8x Corsair Force 120GB RAID0 with BBU and Fastpath add-on.

Stripe size is 32kB, but I'm actually not sure if that's optimal...

I spent countless hours screwing around to make sure Fastpath was on and then messing with different stripe sizes, different queue depths, it was not fun and I do not recommend it. But in our testing we did find flaws in other people's reviews <3 :P

[Computurd]

yes it can get frustrating testing something over and over and over. What flaws did you find, improper settings?

[Anvil]

FastPath doesn't really do much difference if you don't do high QDs.

The LSIs on FP loves QD > 32 up to 128, 4-8 drives (SSDs) should be sufficient to get the most out of FP.

[stevecs]

Have any of you found a controller that can do > 2.4GB/s or better a system that is capable of > ~4.5GB/s? Basically that's what I'm trying to break through (on westmere/ dual IOH SM X8DTH-6F). I am using just HBA's (LSI 2008 chipset (the 2208 was not available at the time) but am making up for it by using 7 of them.

From my basic math, should be able to reach ~8GB/s though am butting my head against a wall. So far haven't found anyone really pushing past the 5GB/s line.

[Nizzen]

Like my 2xAreca 1880 in softwareraid?

128k seq read:
http://i413.photobucket.com/albums/pp219/Nizzen/sequential128kread.png

[stevecs]

5GB/s? Can you give the platform, where the cards are located, QPI & bios tweaks if any you had to set, etc? I've only been able to get >~4.5 when using ram disks. If that's two cards that's showing full 24Gbps each it looks like.

[Nizzen]

This was done using a 980x 4400mhz @ gigabyte x58 OC MB. Using 2 of the x16 pci-e ports. No special tweaks, but I think the Areca 4GB cache did most of the work :p
Still it is fun numbers :)

[Origin_Unknown]

m1015 in IT mode with 6 * 2TB samsungs :P