Thanks a bunch Steve. Very interesting!

I noticed that the ICH10R and the 9211 follow the same patterns in benches such as seq. reads and random write. For example in seq reads, they both peak between 16K - 128K files sizes, then drop off quickly. The 9260 and 1231 don't suffer from this. I wonder if this is because of the cache?

With the exception of large files sizes, I wonder why the 9211 does so much better than the 9260? I thought I read somewhere that the raid processor on the 9260 was clocked higher than the 9211.