RocketRaid 27xx 8/24-port SAS 6Gbs HBA (Marvell 88SE9485)

[F@32]

2720 is looking not bad for a $200 controller... But can it beat PCH?

Video with 4x C300
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lMap1plneI

Not totally accurate, but a review of 2760 (24-port part)

[Computurd]

wow, looks pretty good! just pray to god you never have a problem with it
lol that is just me hating on highpoint, i really dislike them from the past, however, if they have newer gear, so be it!

seems to be competing with the lsi 9240 series, i will do some reading on it !

[Computurd]

very interesting. the new Marvell controller is on there. it is going to be some type of HBA/raid card, but their full fledged cards they have out now look pretty interesting as well.

HighPoint hardware assisted RAID 5

assisted tells me that there is some CPU offloading of the raid parity calculations. also, there seems to be no cache. but man for budget card it could be fast. wondering about stripe settings, etc? if it has more functionality than the 9240 in that department it would be very interesting. i might even pick one up to play with. god i cant believe i said that i hate highpoint. but the egg has 30 day money back so why not around a bit with it?

im more interested in the marvell controller than anything. this seems to be LSI only competitor in this space. can it be better than the mighty 2108????

[F@32]

very interesting. the new Marvell controller is on there. it is going to be some type of HBA/raid card, but their full fledged cards they have out now look pretty interesting as well.



assisted tells me that there is some CPU offloading of the raid parity calculations. also, there seems to be no cache. but man for budget card it could be fast. wondering about stripe settings, etc? if it has more functionality than the 9240 in that department it would be very interesting. i might even pick one up to play with. god i cant believe i said that i hate highpoint. but the egg has 30 day money back so why not around a bit with it?

im more interested in the marvell controller than anything. this seems to be LSI only competitor in this space. can it be better than the mighty 2108????

Yeah, it might not beat 9211/9240 but it's breathing down LSI's neck for sure. RAID HBA means it works also like 9211/9240. They have sequential benchies with 8 HDDs RAID-5 being on par or beating 9240. Plus that youtube video makes it interesting... That will be my next bench toy after I'm done with 9240

Regarding LSISAS2108... Interesting question. May be lack of cache is an advantage for fast SSDs, but makes you wonder how taxing lack of ROC will be on the host CPU. I see positive feedback about it so far. I wonder what 4GB/s maximum performance claim on the box means? Anyway 1.2GB/s with 4 C300 looks impressive. I want to see CPU utilization with 4K QD32-64 runs...

[Computurd]

I want to see CPU utilization with 4K QD32-64 runs...

exactly! however the review over at toms shows some good latency numbers...so if this is a stripped down card, where is the big daddy card? thats my main question here....where is its flagship equivalent? and how does that perform?

[F@32]

exactly! however the review over at toms shows some good latency numbers...so if this is a stripped down card, where is the big daddy card? thats my main question here....where is its flagship equivalent? and how does that perform?

Yeah, I went looking for souped up version, and it seems they are all cacheless HBA types. You mind posting a link to where you saw low latency numbers for the card besides the youtube video I posted? Thanks for the heads up. 2011, more toys, yay!

[Computurd]

oh figured youd read it. this is the big one that makes me VERY interested:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/PDF/rr...010-2-2010.pdf

[Nizzen]

But does own Areca 1880? In latency and random read/write?

An no memory on the controller? Epic fail

The seq read looks good though

[F@32]

But does own Areca 1880? In latency and random read/write?

An no memory on the controller? Epic fail

The seq read looks good though

Yeah, 2760 at the 9260 price point makes it unattractive a bit. Even with 24 ports...

Lol at the CDM 100Mb bench. Testing LSI's cache. Awesome.

I wished they tested 2760 or 2720 8R0 C300 256Gb vs 9260-8i 8R0. CDM 1000Mb and AS SSD. Right now it's all over the place: 100Mb CDM 24 drives vs 8 drives testing LSI's cache...

[Computurd]

yea that ruins it for me as well i mean WTF comparing a 24 drive array to a 8 drive array? laughable! cmon guys, you can put up a better farce than that.

the main thing i gleaned from that is that it does have great latency. however, upon reflection with a FastPath key the 9260 actually has lower latency than that.

and yea nizzen, you are right, it sure isnt a 1880

but a 9260 is no joke either! if they could put cache on a 9260 i would dump this areca in a heartbeat though. god could you imagine fastpath with cache?? LOL

LSI2208: Where art Thou???

[F@32]

yea that ruins it for me as well i mean WTF comparing a 24 drive array to a 8 drive array? laughable! cmon guys, you can put up a better farce than that.

the main thing i gleaned from that is that it does have great latency. however, upon reflection with a FastPath key the 9260 actually has lower latency than that.

and yea nizzen, you are right, it sure isnt a 1880

but a 9260 is no joke either! if they could put cache on a 9260 i would dump this areca in a heartbeat though. god could you imagine fastpath with cache?? LOL

LSI2208: Where art Thou???

9260-8i with 4Gb cache, FastPath key and 8 C400... Jizz in my pants.