Re: SATA II and PCI-X vs PCI for Areca ARC-1110 RAID Adapter

[George Georgalis <george%galis.org@localhost>]

On Thu 08 May 2008 at 08:41:09 PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
>On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:40:26PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
>> Do you know which firmware version you are using?  I
>> understand (in linux) 1.41 and 1.43 are slow and 1.42
>> gives best performance. (customer review on vendor site)
>
>1.43.  All the benchmarks were run from xen domU, the numbers
>would look better without xen (and the extra load that this
>system has).

FWIW it looks like there have been many updates in 1.44
http://www.areca.com.tw/support/main.htm
http://www.areca.us/support/download/RaidCards/BIOS_Firmware/release_note.zip

// George


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