LSI 9211-8i

[One_Hertz]

one hertz

xp is not whats limiting you.. you got another sas controller in the hope (because some individual/s shows you iometer ?? ) of getting close/match/beat areca iop341 ?!? tsk tsk

let me remind you yet again @ real apps theres nothing faster than areca iop341.. nothing!

I did pretty much expect this, but it was just $200 so no biggie

This card is really weird... It can NOT do large files. I mean, if I try reading or writing in blocks of more than say 512k, the performance drops to 200mb/s (performance of one drive). If I do 64-128k blocks or something in that ballpark, then it shows a lot of bandwidth. It's pretty screwed up. I just got into windows like an hour ago so I didnt get to play much yet. I will check it out some more tomorrow.

edit: kind of off topic, but damn a 30GB agility is very noticeably slower than an X25-E. This, I did not expect. Using an agility now in my lappy and I have like a 3GB outlook pst file with dozens of thousands of emails and searching through it is like 2x slower on the agility .