Quote Originally Posted by mbreslin View Post


That's 1 drive with your usual 9260 r0 settings from earlier only thing I turned on cache, I bet that skewed it, I have to go out for an hour I'll fix it when I get home if you need something different. (64k stripe)
Quote Originally Posted by felix_w View Post
Isn't the one below with one single drive ? I'm A bit Confused with this result...
This is single drive 9260, I actually tested each one because I thought one was bad, seems fine now though. "only thing different is cache, I bet that skewed it" I said this then because until then I hadn't turned cache on with the 9260 (I didn't think you were supposed to with ssds, obviously I see now that the 9260's cache shines) The 9260 sees all of my drives as sata 6gb devices, (and it's obvious in this bench from well over sata ii speeds in reads).

Also, just to be clear, I'm not done with benches or anything and I'll be doing different array sizes to see scaling, maybe if steve or someone will give me a standard idea of what benches to do so he can easily arrange them I'll start them soon, I just only have so much time and I've tried to cram everything in.

My verdict so far is that the drives are pretty awesome..

4k random doesn't seem to scale at all, this is dissapointing.

On the 2 controllers I have and ich10r latency seems to be about the same, I knew this going in, I don't see what can be done possibly crucial updating firmware but this seems doubtful, I believe I read a mod post saying it was unlikely there would be a fw update anytime soon. Is my array worth what I paid in performance? Probably not, certainly not looking at steve's acards, but they sure are fast and it doesn't look like something much faster is coming anytime this year so that's good enough for me.

Minor funny thing about the drives, when you take them out of the bag within minutes those pretty crucial stickers on the drives peel up and don't stop peeling until they litterally become unstuck from the drives, it's hilarious, this is not a heat issue or anything like that as it's just ambient temps drives aren't plugged in yet or anything, just cheapo branding sticker, or cheap adhesive or whatever I just thought it was funny.