LSI 9260 vs. AMD SB850

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EDIT: I noticed that LSI chose to gimp 4K performance of cards without FastPath. Looking at Felix's 9260, that chap on OCZ forums and mine 9260/9240 it is very evident. Now, we know that FastPath unleashes the beast, but vanilla 9260 not being able to beat SB850 in QD1-32 4K writes? It's a joke. So, not gimped 9260 is actually $500 part, not $350...

Another thing we could see is the performance of SB850 @ CDM for 1000MB test, maybe it shows interesting things.

If you have time and the setup is ready, it would be great.

Felix, sorry my SB850 was sold. I only have P67 right now and LSI 9240 laying around. Anyway, here's back to back CDM on P67 with 100Mb and 1Gb test runs. Note that this is dirty drive with OS installed even though test was performed while I booted from another partition. As I suspected it doesn't matter much for cacheless runs. I can show AS SSD scores they also point that on-board RAID is faster. But AS SSD shows really low LSI sequential reads, so I don't know if it can be trusted there...



And that's of course how 9260 looks like when testing cache vs. drives