Quote Originally Posted by Rhys View Post
Perhaps he bought the wrong card, but it is STILL interesting how the 1680 added more mb/s in the benchmark (cache) but slowed it down to about half speed in the simulated real-world tests (ISO Game App)!
Obviously this is not definitive but if this is the start of a trend, then it could mean there are allot of people spending big Ģ to ruin the performance of their drives.

My current 'suspicion' is that if he used the same controller as you he would get better results than the 1680, but not as good as ICH10R.
I'm kinda thinking that you are seeing better results on Areca simply due to J-micron lack of cache. i.e. I don't think it will benefit other SSD's that now come with plenty of cache.

BUT as I have said before I'm more than happy to be proved wrong, so perhaps you can time some App / game level loads.

Does your array load COD MW levels as fast as this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWCDch4YDPk
I do plan on sending back the 1680 but I wanted to TRY to make it work because in SHOULD be faster. The iop348 runs at 1200 vs 800 for the iop341 AND it can handle 4GB vs only 2GB for the areca 12xx. The 1680 could be much faster if the right f/w was written for it, will that ever happen? - who can tell - will I wait for it? - probably not.