Quote Originally Posted by Computurd View Post
yes right now if someone were to ask me which controller to buy it will be the 9211, hands down. BUT not the 9211-4i, it has a x4 bus, while the 9211-8i has a x8 bus. there will be those that say that the x4 bus wont matter, but they are stuck on the 3gb/s generation thinking. future devices with 6gb/s implementation will be able to saturate that x4 lane. i wonder why in the hell they did that on the -4i but oh well.
9211-8i it is!!! no one will come close to matching it on price v performance, and the best solutions out there will only beat it by a very very slim margin. the 1231 only beat it by 2 percent!
If LSI was to fix the 9211 FW for large seq xfers, add a monster cache (4GB) to the card and keep latency low ... wow.