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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 09:51:34 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? 
Message-ID:  <200005021651.JAA24520@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 May 2000 11:28:38 %2B0200." <v04220803b5344e4de122@[195.238.24.94]> 

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> At 5:20 PM -0700 2000/5/1, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> >  FWIW, most of the low-end PCI:SCSI RAID controllers claim throughput in
> >  the 3-5k IOPs, and 20k is not an uncommon claim for mid-high end
> >  controllers.  Simon Shapiro was pushing over 20k on the DPT Century
> >  adapters in "real" applications.  I've had a hard time generating more
> >  than 3k or so out of a FreeBSD box's I/O subsystem - we cluster so
> >  aggressively that I typically run out of I/O bandwidth before I hit an
> >  IOP limit.
> 
> 	I can't speak for the newer controllers, but you guys know where 
> the pages are that show the results of my previous benchmarks with 
> the DPT SmartRAID IV.

The SmartRAID IV is not the same animal as the Century; the IV is a very 
old design and should probably be considered in the same vein as the 
Mylex DAC960PL and the AMI MegaRAID 418.  Functional, but not a 
performance solution.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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