Quote Originally Posted by One_Hertz View Post
I don't see why people say this card is great... Sure the max sequential speeds are high, but the small file speeds aren't that good at all. The access times are also awful like from an Adaptec. What is so great? The areca 1231 is better but even on it the small file speeds and the access times are still not on par with ICH.
As far as I know, everyone thinks this card is great because it's the only readily available card that supports PCIe 2 and performs decently well in sequential reads/writes.

I need to take a better look at access times on these cards and see what the overall impact would be on the work that general users/gamers do. Besides benchmarks what kind of real noticeable difference am I going to see when using a LSI 9260 versus an Areca 1231? I suppose it all depends on what people are doing too.

A more specific question would be:

What kind of applications/tasks would show a noticeable difference when going from an Areca Controller access time of .015 ms to .1 or .2 of an LSI card?