more serious HDD tester: post IOmeter results

[tet5uo]

Well, since it's ressurected :P

Here's 6x X25-M on Areca 1222.

[Computurd]

jesus tet you need something bettter than a 1222! for those drives you need a 6gb/s controller that can handle that random IO. seventy percent, or more, of your performance is left on the table!!
what is your max 4k random?

[tet5uo]

Heh I know its totally limiting them.
This card originally was used for my home server but I wanted to see if it was better than the ICH10 for this SSD array.
Now it's making me think of possibly just springing for a shiny new raid card, after all, I've already spent enough on these SSD's... (heh started with 2 a year ago and have 6 now, they keep dropping the prices!)
Though the 1222 was keeping up till the 4th drive or so, then it started to plateu.

What's a decent card that would be able to unleash these bad-boys?

The 1880IXL 8-port maybe?

[Computurd]

9260-8i w/fastpath nothing is faster.

[tet5uo]

Hey, that's not too bad a price either from what I've found.

My local shop where I get staff price due to a well-placed friend doesn't have em, though, they do have the areca I mentioned... I'll try it. If it's crap I'll return it and order the LSI on newegg.

[DragoonXX]

is there any functional difference between the -8i and -4i that you know of?

[Computurd]

the -8i can connect more devices without an expander. -8i is eight drives, -4i is four.

[DragoonXX]

sorry...I should have been more specific...performance wise- is there any functional difference between the two

[tet5uo]

Well, traded up to an 1880ixl, just the 8 port with 512mb cache.

Here's a little better.

I wonder if mixing gen1 and gen2 x25-m's is harming this much.

[trans am]

i have no idea what I saved here but here it is

this is 3 x 50gb vertex2 in raid0 on a 9260 w fastpast on the 4x slot

[EnHoE007]

4X OCZ Vertex 3 @ LSI 9260 with Fastpath



Hmm, the CPU util. is a littlebit high?!