First IOXTREME Review

[One_Hertz]

FEAR you have no idea what you are talking about apparently. i have a areca 1680-ix setting right here, and i can prove that it has #1 a iop 348 processor and #2 that it is nowhere NEAR as fast as lsi in 4k reads. i can begin to post screenies if you desire. that is a ludicrous statement.

We are talking about 1231/1261/1281. The 1680 also sucks for the same reason as the 9260 sucks. They are SAS cards. The 1231 outperforms the 9260 from 2.5 to 6 times @ 4k as shown to us by SteveRO here who tested both cards: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=234374

@one hertz....it is amazing to me how much of an expert you are at both of these controllers, considering you don't own or have in your possession or have even tested EITHER. just because you have FEAR coming behind you repeating the same thing you say does not make it a fact. do either of you have the aforementioned controllers? have you even used them? what makes you the experts then?

I fully trust Steve on his testing. There are other sources that I have looked at as well that show how slow the 9260 is. You showed in this very thread how slow it is. FEAR is not coming in behind me. We are both stating facts.

yoiu arrogance and insistence that your single x-25 is faster than my array, or any array, is ridiculous. are you now going to tell us how your single ssd is better than napalms setup as well???

I dont have an x25-m right now. An x25-m is not faster than any array. It is faster than any array based on a non-sata raid card.

it only shows how your apparently trying to bend reality into supporting the fact that you personally have the end all storage solution. dude get over it.

Nobody is bending anything but you. A few ACARDs + 1231 is probably the fastest storage solution. That or the SLC iodrive.

the fact that you keep comparing the z-drive to the lsi only shows continued ignorance, can you not read???/ that drive has a 3gb/s controller, with an iop that is massively underpowered. do you understand the difference in speed between these two iops?

Oh the irony. If you read carefully (can you not read???) that whole part of the post was not directed at you. I was responding to saint-francis and talking in general terms about the impact of sequential read speed on the loading times of games.

if you guys would stop and look over that review a little bit and actually read what it says you would realize that this is an overpriced solution. it is fast but not THAT fast. you say that they did not run the right tests? is it that, or is it just that it is not that good? you and the little cheering section can go buy one, then we can run these same tests over again,. and argue over it all for the foreseeable future it will be great fun.

Nobody is talking about price here. That is always secondary at XS, especially when comparing high end solutions involving raid cards that all cost a lot to begin with.

They ran a single valuable test, which is measuring the loading time of l4d. I have personally never seen the x25-m get outperformed this much in any review I've ever read. Even ACARDs don't outperform it this much in reviews.

@ Napalm - thanks for the benchmark results; I was actually going to ask you to bench your setup a bit later. We'll see what the ioxtreme can do when paired with proper cpu speed