@CT
There was an issue running the random read tests on both the PCH and the Areca, don't know why, there really shouldn't be any issues with that config.
QD1 (database) using the large testfile was close to 100MB/s, not bad at all.

The Areca results are not so impressive outside cache, compared to the previous runs using the PCH that is

The latest runs are fine, you don't need to run 100% span, 16GB is sufficient and that might improve the results a few %.

database_qd128_sro_acard_areca.png

fileserver_qd16_acard_areca.png

I've performed a few tests on the 9265 and the results are coming up within 30min or so.