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...
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...
Originally Posted by FUGGER
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
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My biggest complaint was actually that the 4K performance took a pretty significant hit once you went past 4 drives...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
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...
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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
yes it can get frustrating testing something over and over and over. What flaws did you find, improper settings?
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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.
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Hardware:
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.
Like my 2xAreca 1880 in softwareraid?
128k seq read:
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.
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
m1015 in IT mode with 6 * 2TB samsungs :P
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