On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Stefan Ring <stefanrin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Stefan, you should be able to simply clear the P410i configuration in >> the BIOS, power down, then simply connect the 6 drive backplane cable to >> the 410i, load the config from the disks, and go. This allows head to >> head RAID6 comparison between the P400 and P410i. No doubt the 410i >> will be quicker. This procedure will tell you how much quicker. > > Unfortunately, the server is located at a hosting facility at the > opposite end of town, and I'd spend an entire day just traveling to > and fro, so that's not currently an option. I might get lucky though, > because we should soon get another server with an external P410i. The new storage blade has only been upgraded to the P410i controller, and even though there is a new setting called "elevatorsort", which is enabled, the performance is just as bad. The new one has a flash-writeback cache and may be faster by a few percent ticks, but that's it. It doesn't even make sense to compare the two in-depth, as they perform almost identically. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
