LSI 9211-8i versus LSI 9260-8i versus Areca 1231ML-2G

[Serra]

I think the fairest test would be to use the latest available drivers for both on the latest available firmware with 64k stripe sizes. Sure, you can optimize more, but those are the default settings that 99% of people are going to use. People will complain that you weren't maximizing performance for benchmark X, but people will complain if you do as well and I think the only way to win is to level the playing field to defaults.

Now if you wanted to do some tweaking after getting that baseline down, that's another thing... but I would really consider that icing on the cake.

[SteveRo]

I think the fairest test would be to use the latest available drivers for both on the latest available firmware with 64k stripe sizes. Sure, you can optimize more, but those are the default settings that 99% of people are going to use. People will complain that you weren't maximizing performance for benchmark X, but people will complain if you do as well and I think the only way to win is to level the playing field to defaults.

Now if you wanted to do some tweaking after getting that baseline down, that's another thing... but I would really consider that icing on the cake.

Generally I concur, but I have already found a problem with the latest driver for the 9211 - see post - http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...3&postcount=97

In this case I want to use the old driver unless someone finds something better.