Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:00:54 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex 170 controller ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10102201447340.6506-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10102201440350.6506-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tom Samplonius wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > okay, is there another card that ppl consider to be a better performer, > > with the same stability? stability is my primary concern, else going RAID > > would be useless, but it would be nice if I could get speed to go with it > > :) > > Well the new mly patches really put the driver on par now. However, > they haven't been committed yet. > > BTW, the Mylex AccelRAID 170 is the lowest end card Mylex makes. You > probably want to stay away from it if performance is any concern. > > Tom To further clarify, Mylex's published stats say: AccelRAID 170 - 4000 IOPs, 100MB/s sustained AccelRAID 352 - 7000 IOPs, 200MB/s sustained I would imagine that these published numbers are based on upon 100% cache hits, to ensure that they are not hard drive dependant. It seems to be how all the vendors do things. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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