LSI controllers on TYAN server boards...

[Tiltevros]

IOmeter and Vantage benches so we will understand what is the difference between Home and Server motherboards.

[bot@xs]

is that what you gonna show us or thats what you want to see?
only tyan, lsi? which vantage pcmark and/or 3dmark?

[Tiltevros]

32k 64k 128k @ 32queue same results 1680 -1701 MB/s on LSI 9211i8 7xintels
the second image is on 4k file with 1 queue to see the latancy.

[Computurd]

wow that is fantastic, that latency is killer! vantage runs perhaps?
i see you have figured out some settings on the board now, good job!
that 4k with queue of 1 was random or sequential?

[Nizzen]

Great results!

Can you put up a comparison wit desktop x58 etc bord(s) too?

Then it is easy to us to see the differences

[Tiltevros]

ok everything was in sequential speeds. today i do some random test. tomorrow im leaving for Berlin for 5-6 days. maybe i will find some goodies to buy from there :P
im not using Vantage for only one resson. the board keeps 2GB or ram unseen for caching... i cant find the right setting for not using it. the results that i get from Vantage is with RAM so u can imagin how big they r
just for the record the results in vantage only in HDD suite is like 90-110k ... unrealistic and no reasson to be proud or post them. for me the only program that it doesnt use Cache memory and that is for real is IOmeter.
ive tried to disable everything in bios but in vantage the scores are the same.Just for an example for what i mean is in windows vista start up i get 1121 MB/s... that is not possible right?

[Tiltevros]

nizzen one question

the south bridge intel 82801jr ICH10R is the hdd controller of the ICH10R??
cause something is not right over here

[ehorn]

I suspected LSI onboard would produce nice low latencies. Thanks for sharing your results.

Gotta love the wide open lane bandwidth on that 7025 too.

For our next trick, how bout LSI 2008 on board with a stack of those C300's when they hit... !!!

Thanks again for posting these results.

[Tiltevros]

new record for me with the new firmware

[Nizzen]

Nice!

Can you upload a picture with higher resolution? It is hard to read all results

Any more benches?

[Tiltevros]

i cut it in half so it will be less than 200k to post it

[Tiltevros]

32k file seq. @ 32 queue

[Nizzen]

Is there any chance to compare this with a x58 desktop board to see the differences on the latency? IOP differences

You got a IOP a monster there

Is this wit 8x intel ssd?

[Tiltevros]

16k file seq. @ 32 queue

[Tiltevros]

nop this is with 7 intels... im waiting my paycheck to buy the 8th :P :P :P
but nizzen do u know why i have low scores in vantage with this setup?? is there something that i have to consider?

[Tiltevros]

i get only 46k in vantage

[Nizzen]

nop this is with 7 intels... im waiting my paycheck to buy the 8th :P :P :P
but nizzen do u know why i have low scores in vantage with this setup?? is there something that i have to consider?

The cache on the controller is the difference. So what we want is monster cache with "no" latency like you're LSI

Controllers with cache must have some advantages to defend the higher price?

[Tiltevros]

the thing is that S7025 use some amount of RAM for Cache for the controller... if i enable it i get 96k score in vantage... but this is not reallistic... just think that it use 2GB DDR 3 1333Mhz for caching.... im not going to public that result
for the reason that is NOT realistic... imagine that the motherboard has superfech and prefech settings on BIOS...for Hard accelaration of DB and FS... when i enable all those settings the controller lags... and that lag is like 0,20 -0,35 ms
and is way way to much...

ALL the RESULTS that i post here is with CACHE DISABLE on BIOS.
Pure results of the new firmware of 9211

[Computurd]

which driver you using tilt...?

[Tiltevros]

windows 2008 driver always

[Computurd]

well with these types of latencies you can see that the old rules of latency with SAS/SATA devices has changed. lots of people have said in the past that sas/sata together leads to poor latency. this explains why areca and others are all making sas/sata devices with the 6gb/s controllers, and not sata only.