Re: 2120S poor performance

From: Steven Hartland (killing_at_multiplay.co.uk)
Date: 12/09/04

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    To: <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>, "Bill Anderson" <anderson@wks.uts.ohio-state.edu>
    Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:02:53 -0000
    
    

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Jon Noack" <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>

    > The asr driver is in need of a lot of attention. Still, testing random
    > read/write is much better than testing sequential i/o as most real-world
    > workloads aren't sequential in nature. The raidtest utility (now in
    > ports) does an excellent job with random read/write testing.

    As a point of note 2015S performs as poor under windows as it does
    under freebsd so Im not so sure that its totally down to drivers.

    > There are many quality, (relatively) cheap controllers out there, but if
    > you're looking to stick with Adaptec get a 2130S. The 2130S uses the aac
    > driver, which is quite well tuned and maintained by Scott Long.

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