> Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >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. Yeah, i was impressed by the claimed specs. I bet if i knew how much it sells for, i'd be shocked. I did a little searching but didn't have much luck. > -- > Stan p.s. Sory for the duplicate Stan, I couldn't figure out how to disable html on my android mail client, and linux-raid bounced it. -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
