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Subject: Re: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240 with mfi driver?
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On 31/03/2012, at 10:24 AM, Doug Ambrisko wrote:

> Well, then you can do the performance test of the 9240 on the 9261s
> by disabling the battery and the cache!  Feel free to do the test on
> the 9240.  I can't see anything being faster without the NVRAM cache.

The other critical part of the test was making sure the 9240 worked with =
FreeBSD!

On performance and NVRAM, yes, agree on disabling the cache in the 9261 =
to figure out how is will basically perform. Still interested to give =
the JBOD mode a try with ZFS.

Thanks,

Jan.