From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: RAID6 issues Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:14:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4E822079.9020901@hardwarefreak.com> References: <201109271246.10137.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201109271246.10137.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Cc: Andriano , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/27/2011 1:46 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > Stan Hoeppner suggested the LSI SAS1068E card, which looks to be very nice. > Only slightly more expensive than the SASLP and well supported under linux. > > I'll hopefully be getting my hands on a LSI 9210-8i soon. Shortly there-after > I'll be selling my SASLP. The 9210-8i is a newer generation card using the SAS2008 chip. IOPS potential is over double that of the 1068E cards, 320M vs 140M, and you'll have support for drives larger than 2TB. It also supports SATA3 link speed whereas the 1068E chips only support SATA2. It has a PCIe x8 2.0 interface for 8GB/s b/w, whereas the 1068E has a PCIe x8 1.0 interface for only 4GB/s. In short, it's has quite a bit more capability than the 1068E based cards. -- Stan