SAS6 vs PERC6?

[Tino Schwarze]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 05:22:57PM -0700, David Sparks wrote:
> Has anyone tested the performance of the SAS6/iR onboard controller vs the
> PERC6 addon controller?
> 
> The SAS6 is a very basic controller with almost no features and does not have
> a cache (but has dangerous drive cache support).

I'm not sure about the SAS6, but the SAS5 sucks in terms of performance.
I mean, it doesn't just suck, it really SUCKS! It's no real RAID
controller (no memory, so no cache). I'm considering to switch to
software RAID1 on a PE860 since there's no PERC available for that
machine.

Bye,

Tino.

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