LSI 9260 vs. AMD SB850

[F@32]

with only two devices it might outperform it in some scenarios. but not in stability of course. a few bluescreens and your array is a goner on most fakeraids.
however, you shouldnt be buying a 500 raid card for two devices anyway. this is for larger arrays, where the ICH or SB850 couldn't even begin to keep up.

Oh, I totally agree. I wouldn't have paid full retail for it, temptation was great to mess with it. I will be frank, I feel that FP idea is a rip off. Should have been enabled by default.

havent heard good things about that set of drives. seems to be knock-offish with poor firmware support.

They are back to where they came from. But FW seemed to be 3.1.2 SF1222...

@50K iops you are consuming > 1/3 of the CPU on the AMD rig, the 9260 has it's own "cpu" and shouldn't be consuming > 10% in most cases.

Yep, you're right there. Noe that in the test only 1 worker was running. For desktop/gaming use I sure hope 4K >QD16 is not a very common scenario. In any case, at least there is some utilization for multiple cores.

6%


And yes, at QD32 with 4 workers AMD is tapped out. You have to agree I hope, that 40% CPU sacrifice for 60K is worthy.







4R0 LSI no FP (again, something is borked on that mobo)


4R0 AMD