Quote Originally Posted by SteveRo View Post
I somewhat agree - however - if a given IOP request or I shoudl say a set of IOP requests can be handled by the cache AND if latecy can be kept low - a controller with a lot of cache - say 4GB - SHOULD be a winner. So many factors go into this controller f/w being huge. I think the 1680 has such potential, it is a shame that the f/w is holding it back!
Acard need to swap out sata with PCIe and then it would be CRAZY fast because in my opinion anything that adds latency is not worth it for me.
Although I do understand your point about cache.