LSI 9211-8i

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this hba should more than be an improvement for you. the raid card would be nice, but with your setup and what you aim to do, me personally, go with the 9211. i am by no means an expert, i am a student of this stuff so do not take my word for it in its entirety. lets hear some feedback from other guys around here there are great minds on this forum who might feel otherwise and have convincing reason why. i dont see it personally but LOL oh well
i am doing some serious testing on this here thing-a-ma-bobby and i will have some serious graphs and results by monday. at least hold off until then?

oh well I hope newegg still has them in stock. the word about these cards is going to get out fast. Just think about all users like me that blew $500 plus on raid ssd and are using crappy onboard nvidia and amd raid. think of what the options were? go to intel and use ICH10XXX, use onboard amd/nvidia and get crap performance or blow $600-1200 on an Areca? this is without a doubt the best thing to happen to SSD raid since the SSD was born.

so am I correct by saying the only difference btw. the 9211 and the 9260 is the 9260 comes with 512MB DDRII cache (800MHz)??

would cache only benefit if you have a lot of drives connected or would it help regardless?