ok 4k 100 percent random 16 outstanding i/o..i have reached higher with the 9260 than that however, so i am going to do some testing in the direction of the 9260 for comparison. i have hit 307 mb/s on 4k random on the 9260-8i, but being able to get that performance outta this product within its price point is outstanding. also curious as to its results with a software raid, using it merely as a pass-through device, however that is not bootable so i will not go in that direction. that is however the way that they received those humongous results in toms hardware testing is a software raid. i am not interested in non bootable raid arrays however. there is the option to use this as an expander for the 9260-8i as well, but since i only have eight disks that would not provide any improvements..unless....
@nizzen i will run pcmark vantage. i am really remiss to put up pcmark05 hdd tests as many people are using dynamic arrays and switching through them as the benchmark progresses, using each array tailored for the test involved. this muddies the water with pcmark05 testing in general so i now shun those tests there is no sense testing against that BS lol