New LSI 9200 series controllers: 6Gb/s, 2.88 GB/s seq. reads, 1.87 GB/s seq. writes

[Biker]

What are you using for drives? Unless you are going over the limit of ICH*R there is no reason to go a RAID card as it won't benefit sequential read/writes.

If we haven't managed it yet I think everyone in this thread intends to in the very near future

[lowfat]

If we haven't managed it yet I think everyone in this thread intends to in the very near future

I meant the limit for the controller not the individual drive like the ~ 600MB/s that ICH10R can do. I know it is my bottleneck but the 9260-4i isn't available in Canada anywhere.

[Biker]

I meant the limit for the controller not the individual drive like the ~ 600MB/s that ICH10R can do. I know it is my bottleneck but the 9260-4i isn't available in Canada anywhere.

My ICH10R tops out at around 520mb/s. If I connect the same 2 drives to the LSi card I get 600mb/s read (2 x25m-G2 RAID 0 tested with AS SSD).

Edit:

ICH10R 2x X25-M G2 RAID 0 128k stripe:




LSI 9260-8i 2x X25-M G2 RAID 0 128k stripe:



The 4k results are pretty low on the LSI card but the sequential is significantly better.....