[WBEL-users] LSI SATA 150-6

[Nick Bright]

The card works excellently, with the stock megaraid.o driver that every 
other MegaRAID product uses. I am quite satisified with performance and 
compability. As well, the acompanying management software is pretty 
good. Two thumbs up for this card.

My test of the card was in my Del 1600SC (dual Xeon 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM) in a 
PCI-X slot
I used six Seagate 80GB drives (Model ST380013AS)

In RAID 5, DirectIO caching, & Adaptive Read ahead the performance was a 
bit better than a single IBM UltraStar 18Gb 10,000 RPM Ultra 160 drive.

I can post some bonnie++ benchmark results if there is interest.

Sustained writes of a 4Gb file (at 1Mb and 4Kb block sizes) resulted in 
35Mb/sec write speeds.

time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=4k count=1048576
and
time dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=4096

were used to attain that result.


 - Nick

Aly Dharshi wrote:

> No clue, but do let us know of your results, maybe I can be persuaded 
> to by it :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Aly.
>
> Nick Bright wrote:
>
>> I'm buying an LSI SATA 150-6 (6 channel sata raid), and was wondering if
>> anyone had tried using one of these with whitebox? I know it's
>> supported, but I was wondering what someones results of actually using
>> it are?
>>
>>
>