Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
Not bad at all, I was hoping for a bit more though.
Me too!

Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
A bit strange that the 64K strip is the better performer, that might be due to the FP Key.
64K is only better for random, or for sequential when read ahead is enabled (RAE). The hit for RAE is so large on the random side, though, that to me, the best combined random and seq throughput was 32K -- that's what I used for much of my other tests.

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Did you clean the drives between each bench or are the drives in "steady state"?
Steady state. Cleaning (secure erase) requires the drives to be connected to the ICH10R, so it's not easy with my current setup. Also, most of my tests are for reads only, so a dirty drive shouldn't matter.

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I still haven't received my FP key (delayed for another week), I might start playing with my 2 LSI 9260s without the key just to get to know how they perform together.
Each 9260 is ~90' iops (w/o the key) so in theory they should do 180' iops, looking at your numbers that might not be the case.
For obvious reasons, I would be very interested in your two-controller results, even without FP. Would you do those tests on your UD7?