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 11:27:17 AM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
>On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 09:10:30AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>> The test block size should be greater than your RAM.
>> 
>> So if you have 1024MB RAM, try bonnie -s 2048
>
>              -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input--   
> --Random--
>              -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char-  --Block---  
> --Seeks---
>Machine       MB K/sec   %CPU K/sec  %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec  %CPU K/sec  %CPU 
>/sec  %CPU
>            2048 135583  87.2 165486 56.6 86314 31.8 110383 60.5 310357 56.2 
> 126.5  2.1


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)

// George


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