Quote Originally Posted by SteveRo View Post
I am wondering if it might be faster based on info/results in the Toms review -

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...id,2388-3.html

See your own post above - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...5&postcount=82.

About the 9210 controller Toms says - "The 9210-8i, aka Intel RS2BL080, offers the same number of SAS/SATA ports as the 9260-8i, and the PCB has exactly the same dimensions, but the product is somewhat different, and much simpler overall. It does not feature a powerful RAID-on-Chip solution with XOR acceleration for RAID 5 and RAID 6; it does not come with cache memory; and it doesn’t feature a battery backup unit. However, that strip-down may be helpful in terms of throughput, as there is no processing unit and no cache memory that might be trying to improve performance while effectively limiting it in our scenario (as was the case with Adaptec’s RAID 5805). Of course, it also helps with pricing, we're sure. We don’t have much information on the 9210-8i, as it has not yet been officially released. It also utilizes PCI Express 2.0 (eight lanes) as one of the first products on the market, and it is ready for SAS/600 drives as well.".
It also costs a bit more