New LSI 9200 series controllers: 6Gb/s, 2.88 GB/s seq. reads, 1.87 GB/s seq. writes

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excellent. this will be very interesting to find optimal stripe, as from my testing im sure that the 64k isnt it. still fast though
im very interested to see how this handles at larger/smaller sizes. that would be a great controller for me to pick up, thinking of splitting my array into two rigs....great thing about the 9211 was that you get fastpath speeds at such a cheap price!
dollar for dollar that 9240 could be hard to beat! what is the ETA on it? and if you dont mind, where did you pick it up?

CT, here's the deal on this card: $45+shipping. 7 in stock (12-12-2010). No bracket, and description claims it's LSI SAS9220-8i, which does not exist? Might pick one up anyway just for testing...

$75+shipping with the bracket. 8 in stock (12-12-2010).

EDIT: It's actually 9211-8i, not 9240...

The ServeRAID M1015 SAS/SATA Controller has the following specifications:

* Eight internal 6 Gbps SAS/SATA ports
* Supports SAS and SATA drives (but not in the same RAID volume)
* Two Mini-SAS internal connectors (SFF-8087)
* 6 Gbps throughput per port
* LSI SAS2008 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC) controller
* x8 PCI Express 2.0 host interface
* Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 10 (RAID levels 5 and 50 with optional ServeRAID M1000 Series Advanced Feature Key)
* Connects to up to 32 SAS or SATA drives
* Supports up to 16 logical volumes
* Supports LUN sizes up to 64 TB
* Configurable stripe size up to 64 KB
* Compliant with Disk Data Format (DDF) configuration on disk (COD)
* S.M.A.R.T. support

And if it's sounds too good to be true... Some folks report no-boot issue similar to Dell PERCs. Will do a litlle bit research.