Quote Originally Posted by AceNZ View Post
Can you say more? What differentiates the 1231? Why would you prefer something like two X25-E drives instead of eight X25-M (based on their relative price)? How much controller memory?

I'm not disagreeing, and I realize that benchmarks don't tell the whole story, but Tom's Hardware claims they can get 1.7 GB/s throughput from the LSI 9260-8i, using 8 drives in a PCIe 2.0 x8 slot in RAID 0 (212 MB/s per drive) -- that's well above Areca's published results of 825 MB/s for 5 drives (165 MB/s per drive).

Is it the small block random I/O throughput that's the differentiating issue?

Would your choice be different if you were using RAID 5 or 6?
lol say more??

the best ssd support for the last ~2 years.. low access/latency/cpu usage.. native sataII.. high performance small block

why go 8x mlc when 4x slc decimates the world ??

get 8x x25m + 4x x25e and see for yourself

the fewer the ssds the better the controller handles/controls.. the lower the cpu load

since 4x is enough to saturate the controller 4x is the max i go on the 1231

512mb cache is enough for most tasks.. but youd have to try 256/512/1024/2048 to see which fits better your workload/apps

some lunatics say the highest bandwidth/throughput the highest performance

some lunatics say the highest iops the highest performance

me?.. iops/bandwidth/access/latency/cpu usage/ssd support/everything about the controller is equally important

thats why 1231 fits my needs/wants perfectly

thats why ive said time and time again.. 1231 is king of controllers